[Page] Brittish and Out-landish PROPHESIES: MOST Of above a 1000 years Antiquity, the rest very Antient;
FORE-TELLING The several Revolutions which hath and shall befall the Scepter of ENGLAND; the Coming in of the Normans, Continuance and Extirpation; the late Warrs; the late Kings death; his Highness's Conquest and arrival to the Scepter, Sovereigntie and Government of Great Brittain; the fall of the Turk, Pope, Emperour of Germany, and most of the great Princes of the world by their particular names; and that his Highness that now is shall Conquer most of them:
ALSO, His Highness's lineal descent from the antient Princes of Brittain, clearly manifesting that Hee is the Conquerour they so long prophesi [...]d of. Also, a short account of the late Kings Original; published in Welsh and English for the satisfaction of the Intelligent in either TONGUE.
By THOMAS PUGH, Gentleman.
LONDON Printed, and are to be sold by Lodowick Lloyd at his Shop next to the Castle in Corn-hill. 1658.
To the Right Honourable John Glynn, Lord Chief Justice of England.
MY Lord, I might justly incurre your just Reprehension for presuming to prefix your Name to patronize so rude and indigested Collection, which in testimony of the innate affection I ever bore my Native Country, I have essayed; spurred thereunto with the longing desire of manifesting a pittance (as Interest) of that principle Service I had devoted to attend your Honours commands: How seasonable it may accest to ataque your Lordships perusal I can better wish then pretend cognizance of. I presume, many fresh pallats, not seasoned with mature deliberation, cannot well relish nor resent these old superannuated relicts, who nothing dandle but their own mishapen prodigies and abortive bratts: My Lord, I have gleaned the Remains of our Brittish Bards, which time hath honoured with such hoary Hair, that most of them writes above a 1000 years, from whose mouths you may please to recieve an account of all the revolutions and vicissitudes that hath, and may befall, the Scepter of England, the late warres, the Kings death, his Highness Inauguration, and now they having given your Honour an account in their Mother tongue, they address themselves to your Lordship [Page] for shelter from envies darts, and though I have exposed my self to the publique view and censure of all that can read English, yet having the influence of your Lordships name, I value not what darts malice may or can ejaculate against me; for indeed I could not expect (treating upon a subject of this nature) to please all, and so having discharged my conscience in rendering these Gleanings as well as I was capable into English (without favour or affection) beg license to stile (as I ever hope to approve) my self,
To the READER.
REader, thou art here presented with many antient Prophesies; some of 11, and others of 1200 years antiquity: the rest very antient; but for want of a Corrector sufficiently intelligent in the Brittish tongue, that part of the Book (viz. the Welsh) has not escaped the Press free from Errata's. The language these Prophesies were delivered in is so very antient, that it differs much from what is now spoken; and upon that account I could not for the present (the Collector of these Prophesies living very remote) procure any so intelligent in that Tongue, as to have warranted it free from Errata's: but as the faults will easily appear to those that understand the Language, so they will (by them) as soon be corrected; and for those who only understand the English, they are to them of no concernment: but if opportunity hereafter offer it self, and the complection of the time deserve it, those faults will not only be corrected (for a further satisfaction to those who understand the Brittish tongue,) but some marginal Notes will be added for their more easie understanding: but I doubt not but they will meet with many Opposers, who oftentimes resist the apparentest Truth with a sturdie defiance, because it makes not for their espoused interest; and those kinde of men reckon the most currentest Coyn. [Page] (where the very finger of heaven is p [...]rceptible) but as counterfeit, because it has not the Image of their Caesar imprest upon it; however, if thou wilt spend so much time as to look them over, thou wilt finde their Language strange, as to the late King and his Family, his Highnesse and Posterity. What was then delivered by them, hath been ever since preserved and conveyed from age to age, and now brought to publick view: and though they seem great strangers to most men, by reason of their hoary hair, yet there are many Persons living (both of Honour and Integrity) who have converst with them in antient manuscripts many years before the breaking out of the late Warrs, besides many Out-landish Authors for many hundred of years past, made use of their names and prophesies upon several occasions; but it's true, many foreign antient Writers judged Taliesin rather a Magician then an Angel, (as the antient Brittains termed him) in regard of those wonderfull things which he did, when he lived amongst them 1200 years since; and forasmuch as no account could be given of his exstraction and Genealogie. But my purpose is not to Apologize for him in either respects, but leave him to be judged by them that reade him; only I thought good to acquaint thee, That the passage concerning the original and descent of the late King, made use of in these Prophesies, thou shalt finde at large in Holingsheds History of Scotland, pag. 246. This I thought good to mention, least the Reader be possest with prejudice against the Collector of these Prophesies, who quotes that passage out of Powels Chronicle, which is very rare or not to be had.
Vale.
The substance of some of the Prophesies, by way of Question and Answer, beginning at Henry the Eighth.
Quest. HOw ma [...]y Children shall Henry have?
Answ. Four Children.
Qu. How many of them shall reign?
An. Three.
Qu. Which of them will first reign?
An. The fourth B [...]anch; or Edward the Six [...].
Qu. Who will be the second?
An. Mary; or wo and misery, with sowre sawce, to the Protestants.
Qu. Who will be the third?
An. Elizabeth; or a tender Dame, which will bemoan the former miseries of the Protestants.
Qu. Who will succeed her?
An. King Iames; a new Sovereign, a Lyon, or a Lamb.
Qu. Who will succed this new Sovereign?
An. King Charles; or a Mould-warp, a red Lyon, white King, or Flower de Luce.
Qu. How shall hee reign?
An. With peace at the beginning, and warrs towards the latter end of his reign.
Qu. What shall become of him?
An. Driven to flye, taken and censured to death.
Qu. Will he be put to death?
An. Yes: and shall be the last crowned King that shall reign in Brittain of that race.
Qu. By whom shall he be put to death?
An. By a Councill from the Army.
Qu. Who will be chief of that Council?
An. Fairfax; or a man with the l [...]tter X in his name.
Qu. By what death and Instrument will he dye?
An. His head cut off with an Axe.
Qu. What will befall to his Party, or them which side with him.
An. Wo [...] losse of lives, or Estates, or both.
Qu. Shall any of the Children of the Mould warp, red Lyon, or white King succeed him in the Regal Government?
An. No.
Qu. Who will succeed the Mould warp in the Government of Great Brittain?
An. A Branch out a further Beam, or from the body of Blethin ap Cynvin, sometimes Prince of Powis and North-Wales; and also from Eysyllt, daughter to Conan Dindaethwy, son to Rodri Molwynog, son to Idwall Iurch, son to Cadwallader; and likewise from Angharad, mother of the said Blethin ap Cynvin; or a black Lyon, or a red subtle Fox, or an Eagle.
Qu. What will this Branch do in Great Brittain, and elsewhere abroad?
An. Conquer England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland, shake the Ant christ of Rom [...], and the Kingdomes of Europe, or force them to a peaceable Associat [...]on.
Qu. How will it fall to the Church in his tim [...]?
An. Bring the Church to a Reformation according to its primitive purity.
Qu. In answer to the seventh Question, thou hast spoken of Warrs in the lat [...]er end [...]f the Mouldwarps reign, tell us how and what will be the cause of such warr?
An. D [...]vision in a Parliament between Lords, which is called a Red Parliament.
Qu. What Number will the Prime be in the year of that Red Parliament?
An. The Prime will be 9.
Qu. According to your Prophesies, who will get the Crown, the King or his Subjects?
An. The Crown will be from thence forwards disposed at the will and command of the Subjects.
Qu. How is the eldest Son of the Mould-warp laid out?
An. A white King, the Flower of the Rose.
Qu. How will it fare with him?
An. Be forced to flye out of England towards Spain and the rising of the Sun.
Qu. How many attempts will he make against England?
An. Two attempts.
Qu. What will become of him in that attempt?
An. Fall in the storm.
Qu. What will become of the rest of the Children of the Mould-warp?
An. Vanish away, and live in strange Land for evermore.
Q. What shall become of she Queen of the first white King?
An. The Rose female and her Flowers shall for ever van [...]sh away.
Qu. What shall become of the posterity or race o [...] 2 Henries?
An. They will be wholly extirpated of the Kingly Government.
Qu. Having done with the Temporality, what will become of the Clergy both at home and abroad, and first what will become of the Pope of Rome?
An. Fall to the ground.
Qu. By whom shall he have his fall?
An. By the great Turk and the Brittish Branch.
Qu. What will become of Bishops here in Great Brittain?
An. Fall likewise with their Hiera [...]chie.
Qu. What will become of the Clergy of the Mould-warp, or white King?
An. Fall in like manner to contempt and misery, and be barred of their temporal Livings.
Qu. What will become of Crosses, Images, and superstitious Rites and Ceremonies?
An. Demolished, abrogated, and taken away for ever.
Qu. By whose means will this come to passe?
An. By means of the Reformed Prince or Conquerour of the Brittish blood, mentioned in the 15 Question before.
Qu. Whether the antient forms of Ma [...]riages, Baptism, the Sacrament and Burials will stand or no?
An. None of these will stand, but altered into other forms more wise and agreeable to Gods Word.
Qu. Shall the Church and State here in Great Brittain be free from trouble and invasion of forreign Nations after the year 1656.
An. No; but shall be further tryed with troubles both from its own bosom, and from enemies abroad.
Qu. How long will such trouble continue to the Church and State after the year 56?
An. Look not for settlement till the year 63.
Qu. Shall there be unity, peace and concord after that year here in Grrat Brittain.
An. Yes assuredly.
Qu. Shall Beirdhth and Poets be yet in esteem?
An. Yes: Foddaw Paredraeth i bob Prydidd.
Q. What shall be the chief grounds of the falling out between the Mould warp, red Lyon, or white King, and his Parliament?
An. The chief cause or grounds thereof will be about the old or Romish Religion.
Qu. Thou hast spoken of a Conquerour, tell us of his Birth and Parentage.
An. He shall be a Brittain by descent from the fathers side, and an Englishman born.
Qu. When shall such Conquerour appear with his warlike Actions?
An. He shall be the first after E. the young King, or E. which will dye in his youth, viz Edward the Sixt.
Q. Whose Standard shall this Brittish Conqueror beat down?
An. The Standard of C. or Charles.
A Bright Northern STAR: Discovering the Fate of GREAT BRITAIN.
IN the year of Christ, 540. In the time of Maelgwyn [...]winnedd, in Latine Maglocunus, K [...]ng of the Britains; there lived in North Wales, a Prince called Gwiddno Garranir, which had a Weere, or a design to take variety of fish in great abundance, especially at some seasons of the year; and upon the Eve of St. John Baptist, Elphin, eldest Son of the said Gwiddno, a prodigal youth, begged of his Father the fortune of the said Weere for that night, the which was kindly granted; next morning Elphin went very early to view the fortune destinated for him; then the Nets were [...]aken up, but no mann [...]r of fish, only a close leather bagg, in, or entaogled about the said Net; the which was taken up and ripe open; the first object that appeared, was a forehead of a lively child; upon sight thereof Elphin sayd, O! Jessu wnned ydiw i [...]alken, Behold O Jesu how white is his forehead▪ thereupon the child replyed and said, Wele ti am henwaist i, Taliesin in ge w [...]r, Thou hast given me a name which shall be Taliesin; but prodigal Elpnin began to be so rowful at his hard fortune, seeing that he had no manner of fish, when his father had them in great abundance, esp [...]cially at such a season of the year; Then the young child finding E [...]ph [...]n discontented for his hard fortune, began to solace him wi [...]h most divine Exhortations; to trust in the living God, which never faileth his; after these as followeth,
[Page 2] Then the child was brought along with Elphin to his fathe [...] house, where he was nourished and brought up a Scholar, and after few years he became Master of all Languages, Arts and Learning; and also, absolute perfect in the knowledge of holy Writs, and excellent in the gift of Poetry, which he delivered most sweetly in way of Traethiawd, wawd, or owdwle [...], in high and elegant phrase: A Champion for the Protestant Religion, which he professed and maintained, as appears by his Creed, and other writings herein incerted; And an enemy to the Church of Rome, vehemently exhorting the Clergy and Layety of of the Britains to take heed and beware of the corrupt Doctrine thereof; he was a great Prophet, as is already expressed. This Taliesin made former appearances, and bore several names; at the first time called Gwin bath, the second time Merthin, and lastly Taliesin; the manner of these former appearances I have omitted, least my Narration prove too tedious to the friendly Reader: Merlin Amboorse that l [...]ved in his time, gave him reverend and respective Titles.
Now to Taliesins first Language, which he delivered in an Exhortative way to the said Elphin ap Gweddno.
The Translation, Toliesin finding Elphin sorrowful for his hard fortune, began to exhort and to solace him, and said; Fair Elphin leave off thy weeping, be not discouraged at thy loss, nor contemn what thou hast received, it will not avail thee to be hopeless, man is not sustained with what he seeth, God will not break his promise; the prayer of Kynllo will not be fruitless; there was never had in the Weer of Gwiedno, so good a fortune as this.
The Translation: Fare Elphin wipe off the tears from thy face, it will not avail thee to be pensive, neither will it profit thee to be too sortowful, thou thinkest thou hast no gain, mis-doubt not the works of God, for from the Sea and Land will he send riches to the happy or just man.
The Translation, Well quallified Elphin, thy purpose and hopes are not Warriour like, while I am small and tender; After such sort thou needest not desperately complain, better trust in God then mistrust his mercies, in the time of necessity, I will be beter unto then than 300. Salmons.
[Page 4] The Translation: Elphin of known vertues, be not displeased with the fortune thou hast received of God, while I am weak and under thy protection, there is a gift on my tongue, thou needst not be terrified with too much fear; do but name or crave the assistance of the Trini [...]y, and [...]hou canst not be overcome.
Now followeth his Confession, or an exact Accompt of what he was, and of his sojourning since the Creation, to that very time of his appear [...]ng.
The Translation: I am now chief Bardth, or Prophet to Elphin, but my lest abode was in the Country of the Cherubims: Ionas the Prophet called me Merddin, but hereafter all Kings shall name me Taliesin.
The Translation: I was with my Lord God in the highest Heavens, when Lucifer fell to the bottom of Hell, I have been in a Banner, (leading) before Alexander; I know the number of the Stars from the North to the South.
The Translation: I was in the A [...]k with Noah and Alpha I saw the destruction of Sod [...]m and Gomorrah; I have been at Affricka, before the building of Rome; I came to the Remnant of the Trojans.
The Translation: I have been a Protector to Elias and Enoch, I have been at the place where the merciful Son of God suffered; I have been chief keeper or conductor at the building of the Tower of Babel; I have been three seasons in the City of Arianchog.
The Translation: I came to the Plain, in the Valley of Hebron: I was at Canaan when Absolom was killed; I was at the Pallace or Court o [...] Dyon, before the birth of Gyants: I have been at the City of peace, Caersalon, or Jerusalem, amongst the Apostles.
The Translation: I have been chief Berdth to Lyon, King of Armorico; I sustained hunger for the Son of the Virgins sake, (meaning Christ) I have been at the Court of Kynvelin (King of the Britains) and have sustained prison at the Tower for a year and a day.
The Translation: I have been with my Virgin at the Asses [Page 9] Crib; I have conducted Moses through the Sea of Jordan; I have bin in the air with Mary Magdalin; I have received the gift of Poe [...]ry from the boyling furnace of Caridwin, a she Gyant that lived in North-Wales.
The Translation: I know how to teach the making of Songs to all the Masters of Poetry; I will be upon the face of the earth, till the day of judgment; It is not known whether my body be fish or flesh.
And so endeth a Declaration of his progress since the Creation.
Now followeth his Creed.
[Page 7] The Translation: Christ Jesus the most High, in thee only do I beleeve, which art three, and yet one, and in that one do I rightly beleeve, with all right art thou to be called a f [...]ee, w [...]lling and supream Father; worthy to be called the Father of all the children of Adam; wor [...]hy to be called a Spirit, not created like Eve, w [...]ll mayest thou help the Britains, with boldness and humility I speak it; thou that art the Holy of Holies, when thou comest to the age of one thousand four hundred and threescore, then let my Lord hear my request, for then will the lands of the fairest be parted: And when thou son of Alpha comest to the age of one thousand six hundred forty and four, then let the wheel turn to the benefit of thy most miserable children; my Lord, help thou the most bright and visible Owen, then shall Kamber sin Halelnjah.
Y drydvdd owd wl Awnaeth Taliesin i osod allau y dialedd a ddigwydd i bachadiried am Amrw bechode rgweithtedvedd dew.
1. Gwae a gymerth sedved A chred a chrefvd. [Onis tevstha
2. Gwae hwy Benaetheav Adir dafodav [Agai difethair
3. Gwae ofieiriaud mvd Nir Angreffitia gwvd [Agni phregetha.
4. Gwae ni cheidw i gail Ag ef ynfvgail. [Agnis Areilia.
5. Gwae in cheidw i dd [...]saud Chag bleidduo [Aifonguwpa.
6. Gwae a gais bressen Mewntrais trawsdilen. [Trafoyma.
7. Gwae ddegassog samt Ni chat wo i scamt. [Agnis Adola.
8. Gwae eulin Angev, A wnel bechidev. [Onis kyffessa.
9. Gwae a ysso fwyd Twysegir fwd. [Agni laficia.
[Page 8] 10. Gwae a gasglo olvd Trafoyna bvd. [Odraifa thraha.
11. Gwae erbin didd brawd Ni [...]hospo i gnawd. [Agnis gweddia.
12. Gwae a foyn bengwlad Ag afo kirdwad. [Ag wnel traha.
13. Gwae in chredir drindawd Gwae ni rudd gardawd. [Onistrigarha.
14. Gwae a ddyko dreftad Y wrddwar ymddifad. [Onis ky A ana.
15. Gwae a occhfydo egwan Ag a ddygo i ram. [Onis ky siowna.
16. Gwae a ddyg o fâr. Yni galon wethi gar. [Ag ai kassha.
17. Gwae brechen Ky footh Ag a welo lednoeth. [Onis k ddia.
18. Gwae a to gwenwing Gwae a wvlfychedig. [Oni estirya.
19. Gwae in ymwel [...]r kleision. Ar karcarcharorian [Onis gobrwha.
20. Gwae in roddo let [...]v A bwvd a gwelv. [I B [...]rerinia.
21. Gwae ef oi eni yma Os i ddrwg weithceda. [Ai dwgi [...]fferna.
22. Gwae hwnt y gethren A wl [...]dy cha vffern. [Bvthuerdy yma.
23. Man i mae wbain Main i mae llefam. [A llawer pla.
24. Man i mae Guzdd fam. Man i mae poeth fan [Heb. escorv.
25. Man nid oes ddolwch Man nid oes ed [...] firrweh. [Buth wedy yma.
26. M o i mae denikevd Man i mae Anwyd. [Ecc [...] Agfa:
27. Man i mae krioe Man i mae vddo. [Bvth hedisin wvthdra.
His Woes against manifold sin and sinners.
1. Woe be unto all that enter into covenant by Baptism, if they will not perform.
2. Woe be unto Rul [...]rs that destroy Towns.
3. Woe be unto dumb Priests that slight their she [...]p, and will not preach.
4. Woe be unto those Shepherds that will not defend their fold always.
5, Woe be unto him that will not preserve his sheep with weapon, though from Romish Wolves.
6. Woe be unto them that seek gain by tyranny and oppression.
7. Wo be unto the odious Saints that wil not keep his birthright, and not worship.
8. Woe be unto all mortals that commit sin will not confess them and repent.
9. Woe be unto them that eat their bread through idleness, and will not work.
10. Woe be unto them that gather riches while they are here by oppression and impiety.
11. Woe be unto them against the judgment day, that will not mortifie their members and pray.
12. Woe be unto the chief Rulers and Magistrates that do injustice.
14. Woe be unto them that will not beleeve in the Trinity, and that will not give Alms.
14. Woe be unto him that defraudeth the fatherless and the widdow, if he will not make restitution.
15. Woe be unto them that oppresseth the weak, and taketh his right from him, and will not satisfie him.
16. Woe be unto him that hateth his brother to death.
17. Woe be unto rich men that will not commiserate and cloth the poor and naked.
18. Wo be unto them that are poysoned with envy and malice, and releeveth not the thirsly.
[Page 10] 19. Woe be unto them that visit not the sick and prisoners in disterss.
20. Woe be unto them that deny the sojourners of rest and relief.
21. Woe be un [...]o him born here if his [...] w [...]ll s [...]k him to Hell.
22. Woe be unto those Fiends that sh [...] [...]o [...] ever be confined to the torments of Hell.
23. A place full of howling, crying, and intol [...]rable plagues.
24. A place full of groanings and ardent heat, without hopes of recovery.
25. A place voyd of satisfaction (for sins) and repent [...]nce for eternity.
26. A place where is shivering and quaking for the coldness of frost and snow:
27. A place where is crying and howling for eternity without case.
R. Gwdwl fraith hyna yn kan llin e hon fvdd yn gosvd Allau gwneithvriad Addu ag evah a llawer o bethav eraul fel i mae i ddaugvs gerllaw, ag yndi weed ar bruffwi dolieth ir saefon ar Britanienid.
The Translation, Taliesin said that Panton made humane body with his white hands on the sandy Velleys of Hebron, and that this humanity respited five hundred years on that sands before he was made a living soul.
The Translation, That the same Panton in the Court of Paradice made again a Femina out of a left rib, and that they, or Adam and Eve, stood but seven hours before they met with Satan, Tempter of the posterity of Adam.
The Translation, That they were driven from thence to get their living here, through the extremity of cold and labour, and to get men and maid children through pain and grief, and not to live at [...]ase here on earth.
The Translation, That a Spade was given to Adam and his fellow to dig the earth, and to get their bread; that an Angel presented from the most high Father, all manner of seeds to Eve for Adam.
The Translation, But Eve c [...]nveyed away, and did hide from Adam the tenth part of thes [...] se [...]ds, so that the remainder were not sufficient to [...]ow the Ti [...]lage; then wh [...]e the seeds were sowen, it proved d [...]ceit [...]ul, as witnesseth Samuel the Prophet.
The Translation, This wasting of the seeds by the every produced Rye where Wheat was sown, and this falshood brought in the payment of the tenth part of all the Tillage to the Lord God.
The Translation, That of the purest Wheat, and tawny pleasant wine is made a body of Christ, the son of Alpha; The Wheat a Type of the body, the Wine of the natur [...]l blood, and these are consecrated with the words of the Trinity.
The Translation, Books of all Mysteries, Arts and Scienc [...]s, were brought by Raphael the Arch-Angel from the han [...]s of Emmanuel to be given un o Adam, when he was at the River of Jordan in the Western parts, up to his cheeks
[Page 13] The Translation, Twelve Angels and four Books were sent by Lefon to the house of Adam, to demonstrate his power, and against all manner of miseries, when weakness bore sway, and befoje strength came in.
The Translation, Great war the care and fear of the sons of men, before they received sign [...] and promises of mercy and redemption.
The Translation, That the deluge boar the Ark over the tops of all hills for fifteen term destroying days.
The Translation, Moses had his three Rods on the Lords day against the eminent danger of death: Alon likewise had from the Tower of Babel a misterious weapon.
The Translation, I had (likewise) in my Prophesie Books, the misterious knowledg of the Country of Europe, wo is me, and I do very much bemoan the misery and calami [...]y that shall fall upon the Race of the Trojans.
The Translation, For a Serpent will come in with chained wings most te [...]rilbe from Germane, and this will overcome and conquer Wales and Brittain, from the Norway Seas to Civern.
The Translation, Then wil the Brittains be in the condition of slaves to the Saxons; notwithstanding this Tyrannical [...]xtremity the Brittains wil continue in [...]he worshipping of their true God, preserve their Relig [...]on, but lose their lawful Rights and Inheritances except wilde Wales.
The Translation, Until such time (after long suffering) that that the sins of both be had in equal ballance: Then shall the Brittains reinjoy their Territories and Crown, and the s [...]range Nations shall vanish away.
[Page 15] After a long progress of the Creation, of the f [...]ll of man, and his expulsion out of P [...]adice, to get their bread and c [...]ildren through swet and [...]abou [...]; Of [...]ves [...]hee [...]ery, a [...]d [...]aping of Rye where Wheat had b [...]n [...]; of the S [...]crament under the figure of Bread and Win [...]; of the Books of all Mysteries brought to Adam by the Angel Raphael, of the twelve Angels, and f [...]ur Books sent by Lefon to the house of Adam; of the fearful danger of man before the promise of a Redeemer; of [...]he Deluge, of Moses his three Rods, and Alon his mysterious weapon, and many particulars besid [...]s, then worth the nothing.
Then he proceeds and ends in prophesie of the Co [...]q [...]est of the Brittains by the Saxons, and stranger Nation of their expulsion out of England into Wales, yet retaining their native Language, and faith in their true God; and of a certain time when the sins of both comes to an equal height, that then the stranger Nation will vanish away: and this Prophesie is fully accomplished to this very last Point: I could wish that England may look narrowly to their publick domestique sins, and observe how many changes and alterations come to this Island since Brutus his arrival.
- First, Brutus entered in Anno Mundi 2781
- Then the Scots, Picts, and Danes, Anno Christi
- Then the Saxons, English &c. 450
- Then the Danes 1013
- Then the Normans 1066
- Then the Scots 2602
- And now his Highness the Lord Protector.
Well, do but observe and acknowledg the i [...]resistable will and power of the Ruler of Heaven and Earth, and let them that stand take heed lest they fall.
Kynghorav Taliesin i Elphin [...]p Gwiddno, gwedy ir Birdh diwatha eghirhave e Jaweth.
Englished.
COnfide not in him that threatens thee; seek not welcome from a dogged countenance. Seek not mirth from the Churle: Play not, jest not, with an old sickly person: Seek not [Page 17] profit from carelessn [...]ss, not ease from sorrow: Se [...]k not [...]urte [...]es from a [...] if: R [...]urn not thanks for denyals: Se [...]k no respect for abusive words: Se [...]k no credit from fa [...]shood: J [...]st not with thine enemy: Strive not with thy betters: No [...] a word of truth without praise to T [...]i [...]ity; Nor a word of a lye without sin: Good works have their reward; and wicked works their pu [...]ishment: Offer not to a fo [...]l learning nor advice: Sleep not in June least January frost make thee repen: Be not careless till thou fill up thy ba [...]n: D [...]scover not thy treasure to a thief; trust not a thief: Be not too nice where thou canst be spared, nor idle by thy good will, till thou goest on thy B [...]r.
He that wanteth advice, or giveth praise to God, seeketh riches, or maketh request, or seeketh health, or forgiveness, let him p [...]ay to A [...]pha.
Now followeth a Song of Taliesin, in the very langu [...]ge that he delivered it, as may very well be g [...]anted, in respect of the harshness of it, the Translating whereof, verbatim, I will not assume to give you.
Englished.
He saith that the prime 4. hath been always ominous, and so is the consumption of the lungs, old age, the plague, &c.
I am old, I am alone, and without Parentage or Consanguinity, cold after a bed, &c.
I am poor, I am of a Triplicite nature.
Again, I am of a Triplicite nature, old, unconstant, dear, free, wildy, those that loved me, loveth me not. I am not beloved amongst the daughters of men: I cannot transforme and convey here and there: I am a spirit, misdoubt it not, neither sleep nor joy will misdoubt me; by sleep is meant Mortals, by joy, the blessed Angels; dishonour not thy Parents, nor the Shepherd of the Church; give no alms to the [...]roward nor miser, confide not in any creature or thing many seasons, but in God.
YR. Owdwl gynta o waith Taliesin.
This Song is altogether prophetical, wherein his Highness is clearly prophesied out of the body of Angharwd, mother to Blethin op Cynvni, and most of his Acts are here fore-told.
The Translation, I am resolved through the assistance of Heaven, and authority of Poetry, and shall not be withdrawn by any friend, to laud and praise the Son of God without sin; yea, that sinned not, only wise, rich, and unanimity of concord.
[Page 19] The Translation, without guile or deceit in thy eternal and ready speech, most sweet and lasting for ever, and this I will do for the benefit of men here below, where I find the colour or sight of a path of weapons; and a just path of gift in recompence for the dead.
The Translation, Gain will it be unto me as to the Trinity, Mercy for delivery and Poetry, in demonstrating a golden deliverer, and unresistable and lawful Heir, whose shaking will be as the shaking of a multitude.
The Translation, Thou that art strong in thy walls and Castles, predictions shal be predicted unto thee; nay, I wil out of heart predict unto th [...]e, neer as many in number as the sands of the Sea: Thou wall most strong, shall be strongly broken down for r dear brothers sake.
The Translation, Thou strong wall, an invincible Army shall batter thee, thou walls of wrongs and oppression, oeing thy wedded qualities, before thee shall we be restored; I have not sung to thy dispraise, but have sung and sing to thy l [...]ud and praise.
The Translation, I will sing praise unto a warm man, full of ki [...]dn [...]ss and temporal blessings, whose requests and actions a [...]e de [...]inated by the influence of the planets; let us praise with manners this fai [...] Eagle, the like whereof hath not, nor shall not be s [...]en.
The Translation, I have foreseen that the terror of an enemy shall not discourage him, when he shall set his face against the cruel Armes of Fugatives; I have foreseen a frowning and cour [...]gious Native, tha [...] shall recover his own, whose presence shall be a terror amongst his enemies.
The Translation, I have seen hacking, hewing, and black blows, with tribulation, oppression, and sub-plan [...]ations: I have seen likewise praise, gif [...]s and multitudes of men in battails, after a tedious and long continuance in bondage.
[Page 21] The Transl [...]tion, I d [...]sire th [...] Reader to take especial notice of this, where the Ang [...]l points a Conqueror out of the body of Angharad mentioned bef [...]e, and of the sure keeping of what he g [...]s. Said the Angel, I have seen a liberal Person of [...]he [...]ace of Angarad, and if I saw him, I saw a wounder like a mighty strong keeping his Spouse, as a sure keeper will he keep what [...]e g [...]ts or recovers.
The Translation, he shall keep with g [...]od reason his Terri [...]ories with the strength of Armies rightly, for the God of Hea [...]en shall defend him, which will be a man that will resist his [...]nemies with a customary and strong defence, in an admirable [...]ay.
This and the rest that follows runs on the valourous Acts of [...]is Co [...]queror, and of his fortunate keepi [...]g of his Conquest; [...]e harshness of the Language p [...]even [...]ed a Translation, f [...]r the [...]ords ars not to be found in our Welch Dictionaries.
The last part of this foretels that this Conqueror will make [...]able Assaults against his enemies, and that the place of his [...]itation (here called a fold,) wil be made a fold or prison for [Page 23] Armies, and that Berdthes wil then rejoyce, and that as sure as he foretelleth with his tongue.
The English may do very well to find out an Interpretor for the last, I assure you it threatens them fearfully; but to their comfort, it is partly accompl [...]shed, and the last stage not yet seen.
He goes on in foretelling of broyls, miseries, insurrections, slaughter: flying away, and banishments.
The Prophet concludes with high and mighty praise to this conquerour, as also to his sword, whose weight shall make heavy breaches with proud stroaks.
The second Part to the same Tune.
[Page 22] He prosecutes the praising and extolling the Valour and good success of the same Conqueror, and saith that he shall revive from death with his long and sharp sword, which shal make his habitation in a large sumptuous house.
This man will abound of high blood, his Country and Tribe will be of the same; a potent man that will bestow gifts of sl [...]ughtered bloody wolves.
The Translation, A furious man to his enemy, a man of perfect knowledg in Arms, a man I know, and this is he.
The Translation, In battels he wil cu [...] boldly to death; a man that wil strike dead, and no trouble after; a confident and a bold man, that wil confine his enemies to their graves; a man like Greydyawl and Greyt, the son of Ery.
This is a trebble twisted knot.
[Page 24] Here he points cut a date of a perrilous time, in a mystical number, as Trei dreon, Try [...]eyon, Rywtry: I refer it to be unfolded by the ingenious Reader.
The Third Part.
The way to interpret is not free.
The Prophet beginneth with hearty prayers for this British Conqueror, and then runs on in desplaying his exploits, and set [...]i [...]g forth his deserving praise.
He goes on stil with praises, comparing his strength to Gwrvan the Giant, and that he will be the best of all Conquerors that ever he saw, and that the strength of his weapons shall not decay, which shall both get and keep.
The Translation, That cruel streams of blood shall run on h [...]s enemies sides, which shall leave a scarlet hue on his Bridle; he shall utterly destroy both the Serpent, and the nimble Dragon, likewise the three Red Lyons, whose destruction shall be bemoaned, and there shall be a cond [...]ling of former miseries, tyranny and oppression.
The Translation, The former destruction shal come to pass as also the breaking off the treble unworthy Lyons, for detaining the rich, precious, just, and lawful rights from the owners thereof, and as the burni [...]g of dry grass in the spring, shall the head Ruler, with three families by force of destiny be destroyed.
The Translation, Then woe be unto small and great, which failed to bless themselves, when they shall be brought to the ways of tribulation, as people without advice; then shal the Race of the Picts (meaning all strangers) like the burning of a hot furious flame of fire shal vanish away, and then better fruit and of better qualities shal possess the land.
The fift part.
The sixth Part.
The seventh Part.
Another Welch Prophesie of the same, ovt of a very ancient Manuscript, poi [...]ting out the Norman Conquest, and of their continuance till the coming in of King James, whose coming is layd out by an exact number of years, likewise of the miser [...]es that shall [...]ollow.
Advyd Engyl ar gychwn, chag lluedd llchlin a ffelydyr gosgordd am geglew penrodd, a dygyf [...]r o b [...]l [...], a C [...]roes Ch [...]st yn kymell, a p [...]lav Bethlem [...]a Chaers [...]l [...]m, a gorvoda fvddar genedl vedydd, a dwy flynedd ddy [...]edd a hanuer y drydydd, advyd traiss [...] lledrad ag ymhell garriad, a ff [...]b ff [...]ls vwriad yngwlad vrvwtws, adfvd dial gau dduw am na wyr neb pavn ywhyd na bo newor [...]r rha [...] beyvsyu svw, as kowir y senit, Gwaith y b [...]irdh a biry, adfvd, Rhufain ymhobiu a rhyfel gwedi: a phau fo T. Blwyddin ar bym h [...]c a chrvgai [...] a C. C. C. A thrt no mis gwedi couqu st bastar, y dyveir y Normans, advydar d [...]irned havl, advyd drvd halen, advyd Chyalyd yd advyd byd Bohwman.
The Traansltion
Woe and misery unto the English, for they shall be driven to fly and forsake Brittain, by force of the Norman Armies and the Lyon with his Commanders H [...]lters and Bridels; then shall they sometim [...]s fight, som [...]times fly away then will the Cross of Christ, meaning the Church, be ready to forsake Brittain, then shall Bethleh [...]m and Jerusal [...]m be pu [...]ished then the right Christians, meaning the B [...]ittains, shall be overcome; then shall the Normans and the English fight by fi [...]s [Page 31] and turns: woe then for oppression and theevery, and for want of love, and for false and malicious designs in the land of Brutus; Woe and revenge from God because they contend about another mans right, if the condition of the Saints and Beirdles be true: Woe, when Ro [...]e enters into every house, then shall be warrs: And when T. 76. years, and 300 and 3. nine Months comes; after the Conquest of a Bastard, meaning the Norman Duke, then the Race of the Normans in the Kingly Government rooted out, and extinct, then shall the malice of both (meaning the Normans and the Saxons) equally meet: Woe then for the Armies that shall sometimes fight, sometimes give over, sometimes here, sometimes there.
Here are three remarkable passag [...]s layd out: First the Norman Conquest: Secondly, the coming in of King James in a prefixed time: Thirdly, the wars that shall follow: And now to the time; first you have the letter T. which by the ancient customary number of the Brittains stood for 160
Being added to the tormer number of 378 makes 538
Now this number of 538. with the 3 odd Months above, is the very distance wi [...]hin a few Moneths between the Conqueror, and the coming in of King James.
In respect of conveniency and Concordance, I will annex one short prophesie of Merl n Ambrose, although out of its proper pl [...]ce.
Middywed of Arredeg, am gyfriwar ddammeg, Egni dav harry in bvdd hir i trwydded.
The Tra [...]slation, I will deliver in a swift manner touching some, mystically, that the Race of two Henrys▪ shall not long continue in the regal Gov [...]rnm [...]nt; read the Prophesies following, and you shall know who these Henries were.
That is, I have seen a liberal person, of the body of Angharawd, and as I saw him I have seen a wonder, like a mighty strong man keeping his Spouse, as a fierce keeper will he keep what he gets or recovers.
The second shall be Areverend Debyn, and Prophet, sometimes Bishop of St Davies in South-Wales, and the first Patron thereof.
The Translation, A well advised and wary Branch, liberal and well struck in years, which may challenge his discent from the Race of Eyffyllt shall set his own hand above the Wheel, fol.
The Third shall be Robin ddv, sometimes of Anglesey, a Bardh, Prophet and excellent Poet.
The Translation, And after him, meaning the red Lyon (as by the Kowyddi may appear) there shall none rule until one arise out of the Race of Conan dindaethwy, which Prince will be of his Consanguinity and share, and this will be a branch out of the ancient graft, which will meet and strike with the blood [Page 33] of Ierien; and this will come there (meaning to England) very merci [...]ul of th [...] anci [...]nt Race to be highest.
The fourth shall be A [...]dafras, a Barah, Prophet, and a Poet. fol.
The Translation, Princely Owen with his sharp Armes, to predict of such will be most dear and pleasing to the Son of God, in the end of times, they (meaning strangers) shall make their soits and requests to the Race of Cynwyn; but we need not complain for their miseries, their Armies wil be very powerful, plac [...]s will they Conque [...], or come to by oppression, but in England they shall have an end, or vanish: This Prophet is very provident to t [...]ke off scruples, that else might be suggested about Owen, lays him of Cynvyn.
The fift shall be Merthin Ambrose, a great Prophet
O hil Gynfyn gadaan balade a gedwi erchwyn Pau fo Gwinedd ydghyfedd, M [...]ad go [...]ewyn, Gwynfyded [...]g fvddo brvdd a Phrysaenyn kad kerdw dir kynvyn.
The Translation, From the Race of Cynvin the strong stump or tree, will come a man that wil win and preserve h [...]s rights; at such time when North-Wales is in a weak condition, he shall be a happy and first Prince: a Prince which wil kindle and gather together an Army to recover and keep the Lands of Cynvyn.
The sixth shall be Mernhin Silvestris, which is clear and full, a famous Prophet.
P [...]u dyfv dav fred r or vn kyrnas, brvd ar wneithvr dial [...]m dir trwy dorf ynwyr am hir Alonas, Pon fo gwyr he [...] pen, a marchagion yn rhvdd, ag yn flaen llym frwgon, a figlo kaer R [...]vfam, a Chynwr yn y Twr gwyn yn llyndaiu, a llyndam mewn pychrin.
Taleithwg frenin a ddaw, ai fouedd or Aber fraw, Ag yno Arth ir kymrv sed yn fodlon, fe ar Goron wrth gyngor gweision.
The Translation, When two Brothers born in the same Kingdom cometh to England, with purpose to be revenged for Lands by force of Arms, as also for the death of their friend or kinsman; and this will come to pass when the Nation is without a Head or King, and Knights abroad, the tops of Ashes or Pikes very sharp; and when Rome trembles, combustion in the whi [...]e Tower in London, and London in fear.
Then shal come to England a King from a Princely Race, with his noble discent from Alerfrow in Anglesey, the ancient Seat of the Princes of North-Wales, then, or in such time when this cometh to pass let the Brittains sit stil at home and be quiet, while the great ones of England contend, for the Crown shall go at the dispose of the Subjects.
The seventh shall be Kilfardh, or Heinyn fardh, called by both names, who lived in the days of Taliesin, in North-Wales, an admirable Prophet.
Miath ofynaf pwy a fvdd Penaf Naf or Nawedigion, Iir gwedi krust hawl bennaf oc haeleon, hil gynawon fr [...]ink yn Eglwys difn doethon, Engil yn Englond gyfar gwynon, hyllt mal fydyll gweddill Brithon, Prvdor Alan, Pvmed gofyn oth ofynnongwed E. Hedin frenin Anfraint hirion addileyir i dyledogwinoir tir ag ynwir Gwyn fydy gwyr pau gyfarron, [Page 35] a gwae hwynt dwyll wyr dall or Modd on, in wyby [...] i q. vd pa fyd fyddon yw kowir Yon.
The Translation, My question is, who wil b [...] chief Ruler of the nin [...]h Lord or Ruler: a Lord after the most liberal Christ will be chief or Head of all the Liber [...]ls. Examne his Highness disc [...]nt from Alan, the son of Owen ap Cadwgan, and you shal find it in the ninth degree.
The Rate of the F [...]ench comes to destr [...]y the Church, and the Engli [...]h in England will be equal with them, and the remnant of the Brittains will turn l [...]ke a wheel: Quest. If it be demanded, when shal the Pawn of Alan be redeemed, then make Answer, it wil come to pass in the time of the fif [...] after E. the young, or childish King with the large Territories, but unjustly possessed thereof: That which will come from the bottom of North-Wales, shall bring woe to the Tennants or owners of estates, then shall right take place, happy are men when this com [...]s to pass, but woe be unto all blind, treach [...]rous and deceitful people, their hearts shall not imagine what miseries shall fall upon them, for their falsho [...]d to their true and faithful Lord. Examine further, and you shal find his Highness to be the fift after Edward the sixt that dyed in his tender years.
The Translation, The remnant of the Trojans shal receive [Page 36] wrongful bickerings, and the Lyon shall be coloured with blood hrough the mistake or error of his sword, then shal be morning and cond [...]ling, with nimble expedition to summon in new (but weak) supplies, and the Crown in command of the Stagg of Angles [...]y the Mother of North-Wales, whose Horse wil be compleatly fu [...]nished with Arms to rout his enemies Army, and his Hand likewise wil b [...] furnished with sharp edged Sword and Weapons; and this person from the Princely Seat oi Aberffraw in North-Wales pursue his enemies at Sea with his g [...]llant Sh [...]ps as fa [...] as Germany; then shal Norway be in their flight towards the North; from Owen this Stagg wil be derived or descended, they shal make an Assault on Thurseday, then shal the Prophesies and Predictions be spoken of, and manifested.
Our ninth shal be David Gorlleth, an excellent Poet, and Master of Arts, that lived 190 years ago, and his Songs are grounded on Taliesin and Merthins Prophesies.
Tir a fini Tarwofon, Tyrrav Cerrig y tair koron, a phair ganerr offireu, eauf ug y pvcredig bren gwr kyffrawn ar groghefyd, a thir y baedd a throy byd.
That the Bul of North Wales shal and wil get or conquer both the Lands and sumptuous Buildings belonging to the three Crowns; and this wil come to pass when God shal be served under the pure and growing Tree: This Bul or person wil be a just man, which wil own and bear the Cross, and get the Lands of the Boar, and turn the world.
Observe, least the Reader should cavil about the Bul and Conquest, here it is said (as a sure note) that the preaching of the painful Anabaptists wil be under growing trees; and when were such seen in England before? look again to the Cross in his Highness Arms, likewise foretold.
Our tenth shal be Doiud Nanmor, Bardh and Poet.
Madws yn wrth Ammodav, lygrv gw [...]r osewn lle [...]girgav ag ynill heb fawr genad, i tir hwynt oedd drefyu tad gwilliwch waith gwelwch weithi n, eychinachvbi Rhin ni ad hwn onid hyny, vn sais yny bias i by.
Rhavl a gaiff e helint, llew Bloddin o Gynvin gynt, Maner goch yn mytv e gwaith, ar M [...]linor Moreil waith kad wala dcc a ddvwed cef, wythriw ddawnoi we [...]thcred ef ych o gymrv yn gyrrvr gad, ar llewa ddifa e ll [...]vad.
The Translation, The time appoinnted by Proph [...]sies is at hand, to spoyl and destroy men of false England, and to get without leave, or conquer their Lands, formerly our rights, and here ofter behold and observe the work of the Ox, snatching and rec [...]vering h [...]s share: This Ox wil put the English in new habi [...]s, the Sun sh [...]l have the Conquest and Glory; yet the Lyon of Bleddin ap Cynvin of old, with his red Bann [...]r, gaining the work, and the yellow from the Sea again: Kadwalader the happy wil revive by the coming and Conquest of this Lyon, an Ox from Wales, driving and commanding the Army; and a Lyon which wil destroy the Moon: fol.
There needs no Parraphrase on so cleer a Prophesie do but read it, and thou hast the real meaning of this Prophet [...]n pla [...]n words.
Our eleventh, whose name I have not met with, but his verdict is ful and clear, and out of dispute.
[Page 38] The Translation, C [...]ronig fabau wil draw to the Seas from the hea [...]t of E [...]gland to the part of the w [...]rld, and he wil be that one wing which wil arise from North-Wales to Conquer great Brittain, and that shall be wonderful.
The Translation, Coronog fabau, wil possess the Land of Brittain, his name wil be famous and known in the Parl [...]ament at London, by consent of innumerable Languages; woe be unto an English man that shal hear of him, unless from P [...]ophesies.
The Translation, Coronog fabau wil take the signe of the holy and blessed Cross, there shal a stop prevent his enterprise when he shal nimbly start up and appear.
The Trans. Coronog fabau, as you may infall [...]bly bele [...]ve, wil send a Navy to Milford Haven, when the English enemy wil hear of it they shal quake; the power of water or Arms shal not destroy his life.
Our twelvth concludes with a Prophesie foretelling that the Brittish Conqueror hitherto agreed upon, shal be a Britain by the Paternal discent, and an English man born, with a Narration of his Conquest, both in grea [...] Brittain, & elsewhere
This Conqueror wil be a Brittain by the father side, and an English man born, and in his time wil be the greatest Armies of men then ever hath been heard of before In Brittain, through the strength of which he wil challenge his enemies to the field at the borders of Rivers and waters; and by strength of such Armies he wil drive Armies of Pagans to be drowned, he shal be a wolf with a open and devouring mouth to the strong which shal resist him, and as innocent as a Lamb to the weak and harmless: see further, and there you have this Pr [...]phesie at large.
Now followeth other very eminent Prophesies in the behalf of the Plaintif herein set out under these names, The Mould-warppe, the Flower de Luce, the Red Lyon, the Wolf, the White King, the Red Rose, fol. And these are the ancientest of all the rest, and therefore more worthy of credit.
The first shal be Gwyon Bath, a great Prophet, and the antientest of all the rest, fol.
The Translation, That cruel str [...]ams of blood shal run on his enemies sides, which sh [...]l leave a scarlet hue on his B [...]idle; he shal u [...]terly destroy both the Serpent and the D [...]gon, l [...]kewise the three R [...]d Lyons, whose destruction shal be be [...]oaned; and then shal be a condoling of former sustained miserys, tyranny and oppressions, fol.
The second shall be Merlin Silvestris, who flourished in the time of King Arthur, and upon demand of the King who should be the last King that should Reign in Brittain: Merlin laid out the six last King, with their par [...]icular destin [...]es; and the last of these six is set out and called by the name of the Mould-warpp, of him at present in short, till you meet with him at large. Fol.
In the the time of wars and troubles, and troubles, and when the Moula-warpp, and his people shall fall to a great streight, [Page 41] The Mould-warp and the Dragon will be pursued by the Lyon and his party so violent, tha [...] he and they will be driven for want of aid, to convey himself very poor in [...]o a Ship, and then here and there upon the Sea, at l [...]st will l [...]nd in a place that the Sea deserted, and then will this Mould-warp offer two parts of his Dominions to them that will recover his Dominions to him and his people, afterwards he shal dye for sorrow, and afterwards his children shall be fatherless, and live in a strange Land for evermor [...]; and this Mould-warp shall be the last King that shall raign in Brittain of the Saxon or Norman Race. fol.
The third shall be Merlin Ambrose of C [...]er Merthin, who flourished in the dayes of King Vortigern. This Prophecy runs on two white Kings that should in the the latter times raign in this Island of Brittain.
In the latter dayes of the white Dragon, there shall arise in great Brittain a white King, and then will the race of Strangers divide themselves in three parts through discord and wars, this white King shal run with peace at the beginning, and wars at the latter end of his raign, and after this will be driven to ride and flye, and in his flight will he fall, and in his fall he will fall head-long in the bird-lime, afterwards wil it be said in mockery of him, where is your white King.
Afterwards wil arise a second white King, who wil steer his course towards the rising of the Sun, and to the Country of the other Sun, in whose time, it wil be said through great Brittain, he is a King, he is not, shortly after wil he lift up his head and make apparent that he will be a King of many Principalites, unconstant and false unto him, afterwards wil this white King gather together an Army, and j [...]yn with the Eagle of the North, whose army wil be triangle-wise divided, then wil he strike against the Eagle that keepeth Brittain; then wil this white King be surrounded or besieged, and after a sharp dispute, this white King wil fal.
[Page 42] The whole Nation wil justifie this verdict to be upright and true, as far as it is accomplished.
Our fourth shall be Johannis de R [...]perissa.
When the greatest estate be cast down, then shall a man arise out of the North-west in a cloud, as black as the bil of a Crow, then shal the Lyon be loosed out of his bands, the best that ever was since Sampsons time, four battles shal be fought, &c.
Ʋske shal run of blood, and Brecknock water shall do the same, the beast shal mark at Brecknock water, the Lyon shal roat at Lemster Hil, and shal weep for these Skirmishes, then streams of blood shal run, afterwards the Rose female and her flowers for ever shal fail, then Kent shal laugh and Essex mighty shal make the Cross of Canterbury bow.
Our fifth shall be Fryar Bacon a notable and substantial Prophet, who prophecyed of the destiny of the Mould-warp.
[Page 43] The Translation, Pray against the wicked ways and practise of the Turk, left you of Believers shal become infidels, and turn the divilish sowr Mould-warp the same way, who shal depart from the true Catholick Faith, wo shal come to him and to those which wil arise to take his part: I exh [...]rt both English and Welch that wil live in his time, to rise against him and to side and fight with the Son of man, with whom you shal see the h [...]ly Cross, and you chiefly having strong faith shal see the great Turk breaking in the middle, then the Devils shall be scoured away from the holy Land, then shal you receive the rich mercies of Jesus, and the Joy of Heaven to your Souls, then, or afterwards shal be everlasting peace in great plenty, until the last Resurrection.
Our sixt shal be Rees Gochoryri, a Prophet and an excellent Poet.
The Translation, Look to the black and grim Prophecy (here called Looking-glass) and there thou shalt find a name with the Letter x in it like Maxen. This letter wil procure heaviness and sorrow, and wil destroy the fiery Mould-warp and his party; the persecutors of this Mould-warp wil chase and force him to flight, and he wil flye cut of the angry fire, [Page 44] but wil not tarry nor return in haste, then a Council wil come from the Army, and his destruction or death shal be between his houses, and this great Oak shal be destroyed with an Ax.
Our seventh wil be Jollo Goch a Prophet and Poet.
The Translation, That the Flower Deluce like the Daysies wil blossom very fair, and wil put out long and visible branches of Dukes, but none of them shal become old trees to enjoy a royal Crown.
Our eight shal be David Gorleth a Master of Arts, and an excellent Poet.
Rhwnaddaw draw irdcni, A seydir yn y fyddni, i sevd a fvdd kynvddkwyn, coi i facw civy forwyn, yn ol hin anial hannes, y wadd a ladder nadlles, y twrch dayar au war eind, Daw o bethyn diwino bid melldigedig ddig ddygvi, o enav dowyn anad vn.
The Translation, He that wil come there to the battle, wil be destroyed in the same, whose purpose wil be to put the race of the Virgin to death: after this the Mould-warp shal kil but to no purpose; this unruly Mould-warp for a time wil prove the bane and destruction of the Nation, being the most unhappy of all his Predecessors, as is testified by the mouth of God.
Our ninth shal be John de Beidlington, a notable Prophet, that sets out the destinie of the red Lyon, whose name is said to begin with the Letter C.
Our tenth shal be a Prophet of a clear verdict.
The Translation, I wil deliver in a short way touching some mystically, that the race of two Henrys shal not long continue in the Regal Government.
This verdict proved too true for their
unhappy Race. Hen. 7, 8.
The eleventh shal be Taliesin.
Then the Allegiance of the Normans wil be cut off and the Crown wil slip to the Eagle of Wales, and this wil produce [...] happy word, and new Laws.
When this Belinus our great Conquerour wil appear, times of thraldom and perplexity wil vanish, then the two whelps wil be dismiss'd of their seized dens, and these two wil be crowned, and their Armies wil be ful of jealousies, two Keepers which wil not k [...]ep their Meares and Territo [...]ies, two which wil be c [...]owned, but fierce and of large dimensions, liberal and of the race of Griffith, and these two Kings shal cal the loyal and faithful, false and treacherous; and these wil not divide and share.
And surely there shal be eighteen years of peace, and after this feasting time, there wil succeed twelve years of wars, and this wil come to pass very cunning and politique according to Predictions, and then wil Lands be conquered from the Sea, and the Eagle of Brittain with advice of his wise Council and strength of his Army, and sharp Arms, wil surely overcome and conquer.
These that follow under the name of Koronog Fabau belong to the conquering Prince spoken of throughout this book, this word Coronog Fabau may be taken in a double sense, and of a double application by the ignorant in the scope of Prophecies, as it was applyed to King Charles, being the Son of Anne, but clean contrary to the scope of this Prophecy, as it shal be made apparent, the second application, that it alludes to a person that may challenge a lawful interest to a Crown by ancient discent, or right of succession, as herein is manifest.
The Translation, Koronog fabau saith Taliesin, and these are read in the books of Merthin, in his mid age wil run furious to his enemy, and in his latter dayes wil be a King.
The Translation, Koronog fabau wonderfully wil betake himself to the [...] to avoyd a storm, he shal lose in England, Lordships and greatness, and yet he shal be a King before his end.
[Page 48] The Translation, Koronog fabau, saith an ancient Prophet from Almaxia, in his youth wil lose the Crown due unto him, but in his old age wil be a man of might and greatness.
The Translation, Koronog fabau (saith Estodius a Prophet and Bishop, w [...]l be unwise, when he shal go in his old age to kil with an Ax, and in his youthful years an unwise Judg.
The Translation, Koronog fabau (saith wise Sibil the Queen) wil prepare a Navy, which wil be very hurtful to the Turks, and it wil not avail to flye from him.
The Translation, Koronog fabau (saith the Apostles) wil do a wonder amongst the Jews, he wil convert them Christians, and draw them to believe in Christ that lost his pure blood for them.
[Page 49] The Translation, Koronog fabau (saith the Prophecy book of Rome, wil go over Seas towards the Land of the To conquer Crowns according to such Prophecies, and to bring honour to the Land of Brittain.
The Translation, Koronog fabau (saith ancient Gildas) wil b [...]come to high esteem and honour, in the Territories of Rome he wil make a purchase, and his enemies wil fal into misery.
The Translation, Koronog Fabau (beleeve assuredly) wil raise Churches in Babylon: A crowned King wil he be without doubt, wo be unto the Turks, when he comes to destroy them.
The Translation, Koronog Fabau on a fryday wil give a battle to Gog and Magog and their multitudes, and then wo be unto the Sarazens, when he wil appear against them.
The Translation, Koronog Fabau (saith the wisemen of Rome) after the year of Jesus the Son of the Virgin 1590 wil render vengeance on the Londoners for their merciless contempt and cruelty.
The Translation, Koronog Fabau when he becomes aged, through the assistance of Christ (head of all his Saints) will procure Justice and Equity to his own, although at present of small account.
The Translation, Coronog Fab [...]u (saith Merthin Ambros and the Prophet called Johannis Coll scencis) in his youthful years will be a fearful man, but in his latter dayes wil be mighty powerful.
The Translation, Co [...]onog Fabau wil convey private messages [Page 51] to the Keepers of Castles and G [...]rrisons, then shal Banners be set up, and woe be unto the Lord of Rhaglau at the sight of these terrors.
The Translation, Coronog Fabau (sa [...]th Rees Goch of Snod [...]n hill) wil send a Navy to Cardigan, and in Pembroke-shire wil be lamentable crying, when his men wil ente [...] in by force. see p. 17.
The Translation, Coronog Fabau shal have high respect and honour, although in England slighted for a time, he shal escape the Stratagems plo [...]ted against him by the race of Llowarch, as Jonah from the belly of the whale. see the 19, 20. in p.
The Translation, Coronog Fabau after his great Conquest and troub [...]es by Sea and Land, he shal b [...] buried (saith the Archangel) in the bottom of the valley of Jehosaphat.
Here followeth the Principal of, or these names given by the Ancient Prophets to know the Coronog Fabau or the prophecyed Brittish Conqueror, which will win the holy Cross through Christendom.
Pymthag enwarweini awg ar hwn ad weinir r hawg Mae ith gwmpas ail Josswy fil e henwe Amroy, Rob. Ddv.
Sai [...]h Robin Ddv this Conqueror bears 15 chief names, but a thousand names besides belong unto him.
- 1. The Sibils called him the second Lyon of great Brittain, whose [...]ays wil be distinguished into three notable times, the first time wil be impatient, weak and angry with him. The second time he wil dest [...]oy and burn. The third time he wil build Churches and Towns, and convert Jews and Pagans to the Christian Fai [...]h.
- 2. The Angel Taliesin called him the Bull with the large Territories.
- 3. Merlin Ambros called him the King of the weak Nation.
- 4, Merlin Silvestris called him the Bull of a triplicite nature.
- 5. St. David called him, the Son of the Man.
- 6. St. Thomas called him the Ki [...]g of Virgi [...]ity.
- 7. Evan Feidwy called him the King of the black Stags.
- 8. Ban [...]ster called him the King of the Foord of Tyfoddvon.
- [Page 53] 9. Beder called him the Eagle of the Race of the cleer Language.
- 10. Mr. Talktan called him the Unicorn.
- 11. St. Jerman called him the faithful Serpent, which wil conquer the Kingdom of the Saxons.
- 12. Alan the Monk called him the Golden Lyon, which will take the wing of a Dragon and flye to Rome.
- 13. Moluigail Abbot of Ireland called him the sixt of Ireland which wil not submit to no mans Ordinance, but to God.
- 14. Arpheus a Patriark called him, the best of the who wil destroy his enemies of England, conquer most part of the world, subdue the Turk and the Pope in whose time shal be wonders heard, and the fall of Princes.
Manifest signs and tokens to know and discern the prophecyed Conqueror when he comes.
This Conquerour by consent of P [...]ophets, wil be meek and lowly, without pride or wilful contempt, That he wil keep and preserve his bod [...] in his youthful years in capacity of warlike affairs, till he takes that great charge in hand, and wil hold on in that car [...]ful preservation til he makes an end of his Conquest, both in great Brittain, and elsewhere, and until he makes a full Conquest of his enemies, and winne the holy Cross.
[Page 54] This Conquerour wil be a Brittain by the fa [...]hers side, but an Engl [...]sh-man born, and in his time wil be the greatest Armies of m [...]n, that ever was heard of before in Brittain, with which he wil chall [...]nge his enemies to the field at the borders of Rivers and waters, and by strength of his great Armies he wil drive Armies of Pagans to be drowned. That he wil be a Wolf with open and devouring mouth to the strong that wil resist him, and as innocent as a Lamb to the weak and harmless.
Further, the Prophets have foretold that he wil be Emperour of Rome, and that he wil conquer Africa, and from thenceforth wil he be called the Cock of the Brittaines, and he wil be the sixt, which wil make his way from Ireland to the holy Land.
A notable Prophecy written in English 200 years ago in ancient Court-hand, setting out the Kingly Government successively from Henry the eight to his Highness the Lord Protector that now is: And also what shall follow in the future, father'd on John de Brittlington.
The Exposition. Here the Prophet begins at Henry the eight by the name of a Tree: And that Edward the sixt here set out by the fourth branch shal succeed: and dye without Issue.
Expo. In the raign of this subtle Queen is foretold that the Protestants shal be subject to woful misery, that the sins of the Romish Persecutors shal cry for vengeance through the Cities, and that the supper or life of the faithful Servants of God shal be made sowr and bitter.
Expo. After a storm comes fair weather; here a tender Dame is brought in, that wil lament and condole the former miseries of the Church and faithful Members thereof, and do them no other dire or harm, in whose raign blessedness shal breed and grow, and the Jefuites, the Priests of Baal, shal be scowred and scourged away through the goodness and bounty of this Queen, which wil prove as fierce as a Bear to the enemies of God and his Church.
Expo. When all the Children of King Henry the eight wither away and dye without Issue, the Bole or old Henry wil be set at na [...]ght, or out of memory, then death waites for destruction, for works unwisely wrought, meaning the electing of the Scottish Race for the Kingly Government.
Expo. Then when the new Soveraign comes into England old sores and quarels wil he revived, which wil pl [...]ng the Letter C Lasses or Presbyterian Ministers in a Lake of confusion, and that on beast King James brought in shal be left or dye.
Expo. King Charles is here set out by the name of the red Lyon: Red in respect of blood-shed in his time rud within his Dominions, this red Lyon shal ramp and rush, or rule and act unadvisedly, whose rules shal rue that race of the Scots, and their graceless high-way men called into his wars shal be destroyed.
Expo. In the time of the red Lyon aforesaid wat shal arise, when both parties shal sometimes meet and fight, and somtimes fetch supplyes over, about, or from beyond Seas, which wil shrewdly trouble the holy Church for four years.
[Page 57] Exposition. In the Precedent Prophecy the Prophet tells us that the holy Church shal be troubled during the warre, but here he tells us that the same shal be wofully rent, and that in the time of Calmenes Oraster the fury of the warres, the author hereof did very well foresee our present divisions occasioned by the cavilling humor of our Sectaries, which wil beset the Church over every side sore, the Prophet tells us further that Church-livings wil be sold or taken away from the Ministers.
Expo. A Well or fountain of trouble shal rise in the Church: which shal fal into the Popes Palace at Rome, so likewise over all Europe, which wil continue by consent of all Prophecies until a reformed Princes comes with his key of uniformity to compose the difference in the Church according to in primive purimitive puritie. vide fol.
Expo. Take notice that the red Lyon was the last King here spoken of, and next to him in succession comes in a branch out of a further beam, both the red Lyon and this branch is here implyed to come by descent from the race of the Britane, the red Lyon from Owen Tudor or Prince Griffith ap Llewallis, and this Branch from a further Beam, as from Owen ap Cadwgan ap Blethin, ap Cynvin Prince of Powis, being further or far before the time of Owen Tudor, to this Branch shal Callice, Colen, and Jerusalem come and encline by their Embassadours.
Both the Author hereof and Merlin Ambros the Monks son harmoniously consent that that Branch formerly spoken of shal winne all the ancient right, liberty, f [...]eedom and Territories wh [...]ch the Brittains formerly enjoyed, and the great ones here said to be fully arrayed in folly, this Branch shal bring into rest, and that by power of the Sword.
All is not yet done in Israel, nor on the borders of Brittain it seems, another bat [...]le is yet to be expected, and a great one too (if this be true) where Kings in their own person wil appear, and be heads of the slaughter, but to the encouragement of this Common-wealth, in the next place it is said that an Eagle with Banners broad wil bear down of best, this Eagle wil be the Brittish Conqueror that wil stand for the Ca [...]holick Faith spoken of before, which wil be the chief instrument of beating down the said Kings.
This Eagle gives us (I say to us of this Island of Brittany) gifts three, viz. liberty, peace, and victory, which none could give before whose Banners shal extend to Babylon, and shake the power of that grand enemy of Christians.
Notwithstanding the broyles and distractions both at home and abroad (being preparations for settlement and reformation, yet wil shortly appear to the face of the world, and that by the means of the said Eagle, as the chief Instrument thereof under God) that this Eagle I say, wil be Conqu [...]rour and only Emperour of Europe, Affrick, and Asia, and a Reformer of Controversies both in Church and State.
Take no [...]ice of the Branch lately spoken of, who is said to win all that is lost, and to bring the great ones into rest; and of this Eagle it is said that of Europe, Affrick, and Asia he shal hold up the horn, both do the same work therefore but one person, in this beginning of his progress, a branch, in the end, or in his full Conquest and subduing of Kingdoms and Nations, then an Eagle, and of this Eagle read more in fol.: And now you have an end of this Prophecy, delivered without Riddles but in harsh Language.
A welch Prophecy delivered by Merlin Ambrose of Caermenthin, written in old manu-script many years ago, of two white Kings that shall arise in Brittany in these latter times, shewing that the first of the said Kings shall fall in a snare, that the second will be driven to fly away, and afterwards bring an Eagle with him to attempt the conquering of Brittany, but this white King shall fall in a storm, and the Eagle his Comrade shall be driven to flye away by the Eagle of B [...]ittany.
Yn nivedd a in [...]er y ddraig wen, i derchre kymrv law [...] hav yn llawen, o Archos gweled i llvn yn myned un dritharian.
- [Page 60]1. vn or Tair chan a dinne i bwll r hon a gyforth ager ag ysswalt y dwyrain.
- 2. r ail chan a dyn oddiyma ir werddon r bwn a ddigrifir yn llaweno Arddymir y Gorllewn.
- 3. A thrydydd chan y llvn a drig yn ywlad yn ddifvdd, a Gorwag a diystir i kymer pawb y hi.
The Translation, Towards the latter end of the time of the white Dragon, the Brittains will begin to cheer up themselves, and to take courage, when they find the race of the said Dragon dividing themselves in three parts.
- 1. The first part whereof wil betake herself to a Bottom, which wil be enriched with the houshold Treasures of the
- 2. The second part wil withdraw from hence to Ireland, the which wil joyfully rejoyce w [...]th the possessions of the
- 3. The third part of the said race wil continue here in Brittain, in great distress, the which wil be stighted and of no repute amongst men.
Now take the whole of this Prophecy according to its Translation.
A fiery Bale will come from the North which will swallow Scotland in her mantle, and by the glympse and light of this Bale, will the Island flye together, and after this, the wings of the great ones will be pluckt off, and then, shall these great ones fall to perdition.
And from this fiery Bale shall proceed a spark, and from the sedition of this spark the Islands will start, and then will a Court Parl or Council be called in the sight of the chiefest, or head, which will cause the second distemper or falling out to be worse then the first.
And after the death of the Lyon of peace, shall arise in great Brittain a white King of royal discent, who will flye in peace the beginning of his raign, and after that he will ride, and then flye in sway the second time, and in his flight he will fall, and in that fall, he will fall he adlong in the Bird-lime or snare.
[Page 61] And from thenceforth, it wil be said in contempt and meckery, where is your white King?
And after this wil arise another white King, who wil go and travel towards the rising of the Sun, and where the other Sun lies, in which time, wil it be said through great Brittain, he is King, he is not K [...]ng, and shortly after this, this white King wil lift up his head, and make it apparent, that he is a King of many Dukedoms and Principalities, yet false and treacherous unto him, and in this time wil be the time of the Kites, and a time of sadness to the Doves, and then the Ravens wil be ravenous, for what men can get to their hands by hook and by crook they count as their own.
And this miserable time wil continue for seven years, within which time, wil the weak and poor be oppressed, and shedding of blood within places consecrated, and the Clergy shal fall and fail in places many, that which one man sows, another wil reap, and enjoy, and then wil death prevail against the lives of the poor, and yet for all this misery, there wil be but few that shal perfectly love one another, for what truce soever wil be made in the evening, wil be broken in the morning.
After this the Chicken of the Eagle wil come in from the North, upon horse of trees, and through the rough and stormy Sea wil fail, and make his level towards great Brittain, and then wil he give a touch to the Eagle that keepeth the Island, and after this, there wil be warres within great Brittain for a year and a half, within which space buying and selling wil fail; for every man wil study how to keep his own, whatsoever one man wil commit to his purse, another shal possess and enjoy.
And then wil the white King with all his Army, betake himself to the old place hard by a cunning stream, where his enemies wil give him the meeting, and then wil he be surrounded or besieged in three places like the model of a Target, by the several parties, and then wil he strike at his enemies, and [Page 62] and so assault and defend himself as well as he can, and then after a long fight this white King wil fall and have his end in the storm or ba [...]tle, and after this the Eagle wil nest or root himself the rocks or st [...]ength of great Brittain; th [...]s wil not fall in his youth, nor come in his old age, and he shal maintain peace within the Kingdom.
Reader, you may dive into the mistery of this prophecy without an Interpreter.
A Prophecy of Merlin Ambros directly pointing out these times, part whereof you have delivered by the fourth Juror in the last Enquest.
When the greatest estate be cast, then shal a man rise out of the North-west, in a cloud as black as the bil of a Crow, then shal the Lyon be loosed out of his bands, the best that ever was since Sampsons time.
Four battles shal be fought
1. The first at Gloster and Wales, then shal Sword come over the Sea with spear and shield, and the red Lyon with many Knights of the North shal come to the Battle.
2. L. M. shal come to the second battle of Gladsmore, whensoever it shal be, a Guest at Milford haven shal land.
3. The third battle at R [...]sse and Barnslay Moor before Camarthen.
4. The fourth, in Florswen, a proud skirmish shal be, Ʋsk shal run of blood, and Brecknock-water shal do the same, and beast shal mark at Brecknock water.
The Lion shall roar at Lemster-hill, and shall weep for these Skirmishes.
1. At the headless Cross besides Gloster shal many thousand be slain.
2. At St. Donnes, the Cock of the North shal crye alas that ever he was Lord.
3. At Werborn proud skirmish shal be
4. At Colbrook this Guest his banners shal spread, and in Honslo heath betwixt a Park and a Bridge of tree, the unbridled horse d [...]ubtless shal dye.
Streams shall runne of blood, and the Rose Female and her Flowers for ever shall fail.
A Dragon out of the Tower shall destroy the falsest of the City, then Kent shall laugh.
And Essex mighty shall make the Cross of Canterbury bow, and a Clerk of Cambridge sh [...]ll it crave.
A red Fox shall come out of a wall, with as many crafty wyles as he can devise, I read or told you, Masters all, defend you, for oddes shall sit in your Assize, then the Towns shall swim against the stream, when the dead man sit in his room, then shall the world turn up side down, and grace shall grow to every man that walketh in his way, all men shall enjoy the main resurrection, but especially men of Religion, namely all men that have been true, and false men then shall run and truth shall rest in every man, and in joy and mirth shall [...]nd their lives.
After the coming of the red Fox, or dead man you see what [Page 64] happiness is promised to loyal and religious men, with a happy reformation to the Church. nay a golden Age if you consider it with diligence:
Now followeth an account of Merlin Silvestris (or of the wood) commonly called Merlin Wilt and also Merlin Callidonius, and so called from the forrest of Callidon in Scotland where (as some have suggested) he lived most part of his life.
But (on the contrary) by consent of credible ancient Histories left in writing, This Merlin was the Son of Morvrin, who lived in Nankonwy in Caernarvonssire, North-Wales. Merlin had a sister called Gwendolina, or Gwenddidd in wel [...] ▪
This Merlin Wilt was sometimes distempered in his wi [...], especially in May, June, July, at which time and season, he would betake himself to the Rocks and Woods of both side [...] of Nankonwy, and there he made for himself Summer-houses of green bought, and was carefully lookt unto and fed (during his fits) by his kind sister Gwendolina, unto whom out of his fits he would deliver his prophecies which she carefully wrot [...] and safely kept.
Gwendolina saw five notable Rev. lations touching the [...] of great Brittain, which she delivered to her Brother Merlin to be expounded, these Revelations with their Exposition [...] you have as followeth.
The first Revelation of Gwendhvdd.
My dear and most loving brother, as I slept on a night in my bed, I supposed my self to be waking, then and there I saw my self walking in a fair and large field wherein I saw numerous small heaps of stones, and amongst these small heaps, I saw few and thin great heaps of stones likewise, then I saw a multitude of people carrying away the stones from the small heaps, and pouring these stones unto the great heaps, and for all this carriage I have not seen the small heaps diminished, nor the great heaps increasing or augmented, the wonder of this Revelation hath troubled my mind to this hour.
The Interpretation whereof delivered by her brother Merlin.
Gwendolina my dearly beloved Sister, be not thou discouraged at thy revelation; for it tendeth to thy comfort, and be thou confident that the field which thou sawest signifieth this Island of great Brittain, and the small heaps of stones signifieth the Commonalty of all sorts which get their living through the Industry of their labour, and which do put their whole trust and confidence for their sustenance in the Almighty God.
The great heaps which thou sawest, signifies the whole nobility and great ones of this Island, the multi ude of people which thou sawest carrying away the stones from the small heaps and pouring of them into the great heaps, signifi [...]s the Servants, Bayliffs, and Stewards of the nobility and great ones, which are and which will be hereafter: These, by fraud, oppression, and sinister ways and means wi [...]l squeeze the poor and weak, sometimes by colour or pretence of Offices, sometimes in colour of the Legal power, sometimes by fraud and oppression, and sometimes by Robbery and Thievery. And whereas thou sawest the great heaps not i [...]creasing or growing bigger by the carriage of the small heaps into them, that signifies the wrath of God against fraud and oppression, which prevents the prospering of such wicked heaping up of riches with the [Page 66] doers and their posterity, and whereas thou sawest the small heaps not lessened or diminished, notwithstanding such carriage away from them, that signifies that the Servants and Retainers of the great Ones will defraud the poor, yet that God will (out of his infinite goodness) and treasury adde unto their estates, and provide for the oppressed from time to time, for what they shall lose by oppression, God will adde to them another way, especially if they will s [...]ff [...]r their oppression with patience and thankfulness, referring the revenge un [...]o the Father of Heaven, unto whom only belongs to punish the wicked; for it is he that ordained the strong and weak, notwithstanding the sufferings of the just in this world, God will provide for them both in this world, and in the world to come. And verily my sister, this is the right Interpretation of thy Revelation.
The second Revelation of Gwendolina delivered to be interpreted to her brother Merlin.
Wise Merlin and dearly beloved Brother, I have seen a second Revelation in his manner: As I slept on a night in my bed, I saw my self standing in a Grove of the fairest and tallest Ollars, that the heart of man could imagine or his eyes behold, to which place I saw a great multitude of people entering and coming in, with hatchets and Axes in their hands, with which they h [...]ve cut down and destroyed this whole Grove down to the ground: and suddenly I saw another young Grove far exceeding the former both for straitness, smoothness and extraordinary length, starting up from the stumps of the former Grove, and of the wonder of this Revelation I awaked, and from that hour to this day I cannot forget the strangeness of it.
The Interpretation of the same delivered by Merlin.
Gwendolina, my advice is that thou harbour neither care nor sorrow by reason of thy Revelation; for no harm will come unto thee by it; for the Grove which thou sawest signifies the [Page 67] Island of Brittain, which will be mightily clipt of her nobility and great Personages, signified by the cutting down of the fair and stately Ollars, and these shal be totally destroyed, even as thou hast seen the destruction of the Ollars, yet for all this, in the same manner as thou sawest a new Grove sprouting and starting up from the stumps of Ollars, shall grow again a stately Grove of powerful men from the stock and root of the former: In which time or age no kind of Riches wil stand in the possession of the great Ones or Nobility, for it shall be taken away by the children of the meaner sort or Commonalty, and of, or out of these shall grow men of renown, honour, and command; and these shall continue in such estate, degree, and calling for a long time; and this is the true and perfect Interpretation of thy Revelation.
The third Revelation of Gwendolina delivered to be interpreted to her Brother Merlin.
My dearly beloved Brother, I have seen a third Revelation, as I was in my bed and sleep, where I thought my self to stand on the Top of a very high round Hill with a flat and plain top, on which I saw many small Hills and green Banks very high; then I saw a great Earth-quake ushering on upon a sudden, by force whereof these Banks or Hills would suddenly fall and become level to the Plain or bottom, and immediately should arise in the place or room of these high and green Hills, a multitude of Muck-hills, upon, or out of which sprouted up and grew upon a sudden variable sorts of fragant herbs, and plants full of fair Blossoms: And to this hour I wonder at this Revelation.
The Interpretation of Merlin of the third Revelation.
Fair Gwendolina, be not sad nor sorrowful for what thou sawest, thy Revelation will do thee no harm, the Green which thou sawest signifies this Island of great Brittain, and the Hills signifie the Nobility and chief Rulers of the same: And the [Page 68] Earth quake signifies a great war that shall fall in this Island, wherein shall the Nobility and great Ones be levelled and destroyed in the same mauner as thou sawest the H [...]lls, falling and vanishing away: And the Hillocks which thou sawest suddenly arising in the places of the Hills, si [...]nifies that the riches and estates of these great Ones shall be given to men of small degrees end repute; the fair blossoms which th [...]u sawest, signifi [...]s that the young child en of these wil become men of renown and of great estates, but hardly wil the fi [...]t generation of these hold the estates and possessions of their A [...]cestors; for they will fade away, even as the Plants planted in the Muck. And this is the signification of thy d [...]eam.
The fourth Revelation of Gwendolina.
My dear Broth [...]r Merlin, I saw in my sleep on a night that I stood in the fairest field of wheat that the eyes of man ever saw, the ears of the wheat I saw to be full ripe, hut the straw of the same was as green as green grass, and I saw a great multitude of Swine breaking the hedge, and entering into the field of wheat, which devoured and destroyed th [...] wheat, and made it plu [...]p and level to the ground, and on a sudden I saw an innumerable pack of white Greyhounds entering in, and runn [...]ng furiously towards the Swine, and then I saw the whole company of Swine killed and destroyed by these Grey-hounds, and I much wonder after this Revelation.
The Interpretation of the fourth Revelation.
Fair Gwendolina, let not this Revelation trouble thee; for the field of wheat signifies this Island of Brittain, and the wheat signifies the Inhabi [...]ants of the same. The ripe ears and the green straw foretells, that in such time hereafter, young men wil have white hoary heads, which wil be so strange to behold, [Page 69] as to see ripe ears of wheat on green stalks: The Swine which thou sawest bre [...]king the hedge and entering into the field of wheat, signifies, That an innumerable company of strangers wil enter into this Island, which wil destroy the Inhabi [...]ants thereof, after the same manner as thou sawest the Swine destroying the whea [...]: And the Grey-hounds do signifie, that there wil c [...]me white Grey-hounds, which will [...]evenge the blood of the white-headed youths, on the swine, and these Swine wil be ch [...]sed away and destroyed by the Grey-hounds, viz. the remnant that wil be left undestroyed, and this is the Interpretation of thy Revelation.
Now followeth the fift and last Revelation of Gwendolina.
My Brother, I have seen the fift Revelation, I saw my self standing in a large and spacious Church yard, which I saw full of young Damsels, and all these I saw great with child, and neer to the time of their lying in, and child-birth; and I heard the children speaking and discoursing one with ano [...]her out of their Mothers wombs: and this is to me a great wonder, as often as I think of this Revelation.
The Interpretation of the fi [...]t and last Revelation, delivered by Merlin.
Then Merlin said, Let not thy thoughts trouble thee for this Revelation. The Church-yard which thou sawest, signifies this Island of Great Brittain; the Damsels foretells, th [...]t there wil come an age, wherein Marriage wil be made between Ladds and Damsels under their Head-laces, yea, and all, for the most Part, wil be married in that age very young, and the Children which wil be begotten in that Age, between [Page 70] these wil be full of lewdness and wicked policy, and whereas thou sawest or heardest the Children speaking one with another in the [...]r Mothers Wombes, that sigoifies, that a child of fifteen years of ag [...], in that age wil be wiser than a man of forty years of age in this present age; and thus endeth the five Revelations of Gwendolina, with Merlins Interpretatio [...]s upon them, which are v [...]ry rema [...]kable and in part suitable to these timer.
A vindication of both Merlines, especially Merlin Ambrose, commonly called Merlin of Wales, against the Calumnies and Assertion of ignorant Writers, that wrote against their Prophesies, meerly by hear-saying, rather then by tryal of their works.
Whereas, That Martin Delcio treating of Prophets and Prophetesses, in his 4 Book, 1 cap. and 3 ques. rejects Merlin Ambrose of Wales, as a Magician, and that his Predictions be condemned in the Council of Trent, yet he reckoneth Merlinus Callidonius (as he saith out of his ignorance) from Scotland.
Also Trevisa speaking of these two Merlins in his histories, preferreth the Caledonian or Scottish Merlin before him of Wales, affirming, that the Caledonians Predictions are more full, perspicuous and plain than the others.
Johannes Major makes mention of Merlin of Wales, in divers places of his history of Scotland, especially in the second and fift Books, and affirmeth that he was a Magician, and calleth his Predictions doubtful and dark.
Johannes Balleus in his Century of Brittish Writers, doth mention both the Merlins, preferres him of Wales before the Caledonian.
[Page 71] James Maxwell of Scotland (that deserves laudable respects for his pains and industry in travelling through Europe for collections of this nature) renders his favou [...]able judgment in the behalf of Merlin Ambros, and saith that he conceived that he was not a diabolical, but only a natural Magician, well seen in the admirable secrets of nature, and especially in Astrology, and that his Horoscope or Constellation did encline him to aim at the f [...]re-knowledg and fore-telling of things to come.
But Gulielmus Newbrig [...]ensis and Polidor Virgil, are of the former Faction against our Merlin Ambros.
Now the truth is that their b [...]re Averment against Merlin Ambros, proceeded with some out of ignorance, with others out of malice and pollicy; why should either of their Prophecies be ratified by the Trent C [...]uncil, especially seeing they thunder out the ruine and subversion of the Pope of Rome, with his abominable Hierarchy, as is cleer by these Collections, but as to this deciding of this Controversie, I referre the Reader to the Judgment of their Prophesies hard by, where he may be his own Judg, touching the persons and their Prophesies.
A Prophecy of Merlin Silvest is▪ alias Merlin Wylt, cited by Gildas the Son of Kawe of great Brittain, and the first Writer of the Brittains.
Pan ddoter gwerth dwy fvwrh Am vn, a chrogir Ave yna y try y llew yn waddfelldigedig, yr hwn a gyfid ystroniaid ar i gesn, ag a istwng i waed i hvn, agynobydd diris o dd [...]wg ymisg y Britanied, yrhaufwyaf o homnt, ind Amgen, yr ynis heb gyngor, Ar Eglewyssi heb bregethe, ar preladiaid heb fvdd, ar kedirn heb galonnav, ar Esgyb heb Audvrdod, ar krysyddwyr ar gil, Ar keifiaud yn hir wy [...], ar kowir yn gr [...]gadwy, ar sswyddogion yn Anvdonvs, ag Hadron yn fradyrchvs, a lliwiav ar y ll [...]drad.
Ag yno y kysid kyffredin kysiwrh ar Alban, o ym pir ir God l [...]dd, ag yna y plenir y lili yn hir y try didd ytiseddnag yno [Page 72] kyfid Gwiber danllvd o fynwes y llews yr hwn a eilio kyffeswyr llo [...]gir y wadd fvlld [...]g [...]dig, kanis yn erbir Sene [...]d wr Rh [...]fain [...]tryy hwn, in orfydair nes da [...]roi y wiber danllvd yngwrthwyneb y llew, ag ynay dengys y w [...]ber yn ddirgel y wada felldigedig, ag yna i kysed kerhri Eglwyssig yn erbin holl loegir, ag yn rail k [...]ffro y tynnir Esgiil y w [...]ber danllvd ag a gyffrv r Alban gan Anad y lltw, yn [...] gefnyno y gwisg y wiber groen llew glas Amdain, ag a din [...]t [...]i dri N [...]ssiwn genedl, ind Amgen, Frankvd, yskotted a Gwiddil, ag y n y llew ko [...]onog agymer y Gwynfin arno trwy grngory krair korh, gan faint fvase y tryd dd dial.
Ag yno y kymer y llew kormog ydenvdd Alarch, ag a gymer hedfa rhyngtho Amor llvdaw, ag a ddiskin ari [...]ynvdd Normandi, ag ynoy krfod r Gwial [...]n las ar ben myn y dd y Paladr, yno y geil wy llew atto i y [...]gel dd o bob tv, agi i daw i loegir ar wialen las yn i law, ag mwy nag vn a orfyddaut rbyngtho ar Baglogion lloegir, ynghwir [...]l gwyr Rovfain.
imae diwedd hon yn eifie.
The Translation. When one Cow bears the rate of two kinn [...], and when the Gold is hanged, then wil the Lyon turn himself to a cursed Mould-warpp, who wil rise on his back stranger Nations, and wil bring low h [...]s own family, posterity, and blood, then wil be innumerable mischief amongst the Brittains, or the greatest part of them: Then wil Brittain be without a Council or Parliament, Churches without preaching, Prelates without profit, or liveings: The great men without hearts, Bishops cl [...]p [...] of their authority and office, men of devotion lost; and Seekers turned Robbers, true men condemned. Officers corrupted with perjury, Thiefs treacherous, and Robbery excused.
Then wil the Commons rise as high as Scotland, of fresh grast to the North, and then wil the Lilly be planted in the Lands of the third heir, then wil arise a fiery Viper, from the bosom of the Lyon, the which wil be called (by the Confessors of England) the cursed Mould-warpp, against the Senator [Page 73] of Rome will this turn, there shall be no Conquest till the fiery. Viper winds her self back again against the Lyon; then the Viper wil privily discover the cursed Mould-warp, then divilish plots from the Church will arise against all England, and in the second rising the wings of the fiery Viper will be taken off, then Scotland shall start, through the breath of the Lyon: Then behind his back the Viper will wear the skin of a green Lyon about her, and shall withdraw unto her three Nations of Consanguinity, that is to say, French, Scots, and Irish, then the crowned Lyon will take for his refuge the white Tower, through the advice of the red or bloody Papists, by reason of the hot persute the third time.
Then the crowned Lyon will take the wings of a Swan, and will take a flight towards the French Seas, and will light upon a hill of Normandy, then will a green Rod be taken up to the top of Mount Palludor, then the Lyon will call unto him his Succourers of every side, and will come to England with the green Rod in his hand, then more then one will overcome between him and the Club men of England in the behalf of the men of Rome.
The latter and of this Prophecy came not to my hands, the first part of it is very cleer and pl [...]able to the late times, but the conclusion some what mistical.
More than one, signifies a third party which will gain the Bale both from this crowned Lyon, and from his party.
A Prophecy of Merlin Wilt, alias Silvestris, discovering unto his Sister Gwendolina the prophecyed Conqueror or Coronog Fabau, with manif st signs and tokens, as forerunners of the same, first in Welch, as it was delivered, then the Translation.
Quest. Gwendolina demanded when shall the glory come to the Race of the Brittains.
[Page 74] An. Pan fo Pobl a gwaith Reiel, a [...] bydyn ddigon ol, yna i megir gw [...]rwyn, ag y tyf kensigen chwng moibion arglwy ddi, ag yna yr ennynir Ffagal er hur i hani, a honno a wen wyna ll [...]bo Amla rtrefi.
Qu. Said Gwendolina, when will that be?
An. Pan fo kymru yn orchain, a dirfawr dalu, a dadle b [...] ynudd, yna s kyfid llew kryf a gred a fudd, ag Owain [...]i flaen yn aflonudd.
Pau fo mel yn y genevau, ar llesrith ynigwefussau, ar bisi il yn i kalonau, yna i bidd Twyll yn agos.
Pau for r Gath yn y dwyraia a llo sgwru sarph iddi, a honno a gospa h [...]ll fleiddie lloegir, yn r Amser hwnw, y mab a laddo i fem i hun a elwir y Tywysog darogau, ar Koronog Fabau, ar amser hwnwy kaiff y Britaiued y Goruwrhafwth.
Pan for llwynog yn preguthu, a Chynafon Chrust yn kyfarch ym nol e i mame.
Ag yna i try duw i law a [...] y ganllaw dei lyngat, ag yr himpir yn y graddau gynawon Troyaf, ag i daw o Gwain Glain golevaf, i ddial ar ssais, i drais ai hir drigfa, yn ol hin Cymrofudd prchon r ynys gudarnaf.
Gwendolina demanded as aforesaid.
The Transla. An. When the Nation hath a royal work, with peace and plenty of all things, th [...]n shall the poyson of discord breed, and sprout up or break forth with unity between the Son [...] of Lords, and then, the fagot will be set on fire, for a wages unto Henry, and the same will be poysonous to the Cities and Towns.
Qu. Gwendolina d [...]manded, when shall that come to pass.
An. When the Brittains will be groaning, with unmeasurable [...] intollerable payments; then will be daily Consultations and pleadings: Then will arise a mighty strong Lyon in confifidence [Page 75] and saith, and Owen before him in disquietness, when hony be in the mouths, sweet milk on the lips, and gawl in the hearts; then Treachery will be near at hand, when the Cat be in the East with the Train of a Serpent after her, and this will chastise all the Wolves of England.
And in that time, the Son which will d [...]stroy his own mother, will be called, the prophecyed Prince, and Koronog Fabau.
And in that time the Brittains shall have the glory, when the Fox preacheth and the whelps of Christ preaching in their Mothers belly [...]s: Then will God turn his helping hand to the most deserving side; then the whelps of the Trojans shall be grafted in honourable degrees; Then will come from or out of Owen the bright Pearl, one which will revenge an English mans long continuance and oppression.
Who can deny his Highness descent from Owen ap Cadwgau, take notice that the revenging of an Englishman is spoken in the singular number, therefore alluded to the late King.
A noteable Prophecy of Merlin Ambros, wherein is set out more signs and tokens before the appearance of the Brittish Conquerour, with pretty, knotty, small number of 7 in the cluse.
Pau fo lyffro ar y myndd kywarthog, y byddllawn rynys o bobl Ang henawg, agenwir swyddawg, a newin kerniog ai ohael yn ddiog, a Chadarn yn Anrhigarog, ag wedi glybwr gwynt gogleddog. a thlawd gwarth cudd og, a Fjubl newnog, a gwen wyn mwlawg ar hudd yn llidiaug, ai wyr yn Arfawg, ag yn miwedd saith, Gwaith Anrhigar [...]wg.
The Translation. When there is an uproar or tumult upon the rich Mountain, this Island then will be full of miserable people, and dishonest Officers, starving for silver, and hardly, or few to be had: and the strong, merciless, and after a wet Northern wind, the poor in vile contempt, the people starving, [Page 76] poyson dark, the Stag furious, his men armed, and in the end of seven, merciless work.
The Stag may be applyed either to the Earl of Essex, or to his Highness the Lord Protector; for that Ensign belongs to both, and b [...]th of them were of the same side, and strong with forces and Armes.
But the question is about this number of 7, which carries a trebble Application.
First whether it alludes to the final destruction of the race of the seventh Henry, by the death of the late King.
Secondly, whether the said King was beheaded in the seventh year after the breach between him and his Parliament.
Thirdly, whether it may point out some odde number of years, as 57, wherein merciless execution shall be made.
But my advice is, that the Royal party may take car [...]ful notice of this last Conjecture, and of my Advertisements to the Inhabitants in general, lest they fall within the compass of this merciless work; they are fairly warned throughout these Prophecies, but these Prophecies cannot be fully accomplished, till some unadvised heads suffer a little further yet.
A Prophecy of Merlin Ambros, laying out manifest signs and tokens before the approaching of wars to Great Brittain.
Qu. Paciw fud a fudd.
An. Bid brith Pen Gwenith y Gwenwyn ar dafo dau, y skim ni kirn keirw ar draethawd, gwaglaw bardd, ha [...]dd yffrriad, trvst fvd k [...]nddawr ar lawr gwlad, drvd fvdd bvgail a geilwad, fe ddaw bydav w [...]di bid, ind ymg ar na char na chylvd ar glwydd pob gwas ar i svdd, dedwydd or brren a brydera i fvd.
The Translation, Qu. What manner of world shall come to pass.
[Page 77] Ans. A pide world, or a world tempered of hoidge poidge st [...]ff, where poyson will be co [...]tched in the highest degree of dec [...]it and falshood on tongues, Stags horns by Predict [...]ons desperate, Beirdhs out of esteem, and withou [...] rewards, the Clergy gallant in Apparrels, H [...]rpers and Poets will be pensive and hear less, Sh [...]phe [...]ds and Oxen drivers will be scarce and deer: And after this will follow a world, that fellowship and kindness will be wa [...]ing with Kinsmen and Misers; every man will be a Lord in conceit, happy will he be that will provide for himself.
A Proph [...]cy of Addafras to the Raven, wherein is foretold the coming and Conquest of his Highness the Lord Protector, with the fall of Bishops and their Ministers.
Trwy orthrwn llymder i bewinedd i chybiddia hir wen ol [...] Ai gwroledd a geidw anrhydedd ir Goron 15 myluedd, yn, i k fud llew du ym misc estrunniad geuedlpedd, Pau so Bugail kaerefrog yn rheoli ar Anwiredd, y Gigfrau a sarchoka gesn y birlhion, ag a hetta ar fon, ag an lan Aberuedd i [...]ren illia i hadar ar Amrafa olion lwedd, y Bvgail a gwymp dar draed o falchedd, An mam An rhitha ov trethoedd, ef a syr [...] k [...]stell y llew tau y glew gledd, [...]f a rbrain ar vrddas, ai Pylassa av yn cbysedd, ag efamgredicka korn wal aih yr helsonnedd, ag a hetta y Gigfrau o lyndain i dir dyfed, yn hed [...] yrhawl heniaut a braint mowredd i [...]irfyno y Gigfrau yn lanh diwedd, yn ol hyn [...]y y kyfyd dreigiav a llongav Allan ar sor ag y tes [...]r saeson dro Ason ryfedd, ag a O wain Brittain ar brain ar fowredd, ag i kaiff y Brittaniaid y llwyr Anrbydedd.
The Translation, That the Raven through the sharpness of her claws wi [...]l privily forew [...]rn the Swallow, and her valour shall p [...]eserve the Crown in honour for 15 years. Then shall arise a black Lyon amongst a stranger Nation: And then will the Shepherd or Bishop of York be a Ruler of falshood or unighteousness; [Page 78] then the Raven will ride on the backs of the proud, and will flye to Anglesey, and at the borders and mouth of harbours will her chickens range for their prey, and upon div [...]rs Armies, the B [...]shops and Clergy will fall under feet of p [...]ide and our Mother will free us of our Taxations. The Castle of the Lyon will fall under the active and warlike Sword, the Crows will get the honor and Pallaces; and Cornwall shall embrace their high blo [...]d and Gentility, and the Raven will flye from London to Dimetia, or South-Wales: Then the Raven will [...]nd her dayes very old with peace and honor: After this will arise Dragons and Ships which will take the Sea: And Engl [...]sh will steer their navigable Course over a wonderful River: And Owen the Brittain with the Crows shall get the Conquest, then shall Brittains have admirable honour.
A short Prophecy of Merlin Ambros, fore-shewing three Course of wars here in Great Brittain, that the Romish Religion shall have the over-ruling power here, and that the same shall be the impulsive cause of great warres, concluding with an odd, remarkable and fatal number.
Pan wncler tri Chysodiad, rg enkiliaid ddwywaith ag yn y dry didd y bydd byd, a Gwenddidd yn llawn gobaith, os kowir gwai [...]h y beirdd a b [...]ry byth.
A dysud Rhufaui i bob tn a rhysel gwedi, a Phau so vn flwyddin ar xv a davgain, iiii n [...]w niav yn derfyn, disre Normandi.
The Translation, When 3 risings will come to pass, and two sl [...]ghts or retreats, and in the third▪ will be a merry world, and Gwendolina in full hope, it the Prophecies be true, which are to endure for ever: and when Rome comes to each house, then will wars come, and when 56 years and forty nine dayes come [Page 76] to be a Period, or odde year [...], then shall Normandy or the Normans be destroyed.
When the odde number of 56 years and forty nine dayes come about, Normandy or the Norman race here in England shall come to confusion. Let un dvised heads take notice of this fatal number.
A Prophecy of Taliesin predicting of Owen with the red hand the prophecyed Conquerour, and his noteable Feats and Conquests, with a fatal number in the Conclusion.
Owen hul dardan, Owen farchog bvan, Owen wyr Owen Owen y mab darogan, Pan ddel gwyr llyrhlin, ai bwyill owrhlin, yna i k lian fal morh rhag Owen lowgorh a Bristow heb borthor, a ll [...]ndain yn gyf [...]r, a llefain hyd ddofor, a fl [...]m havl gwyn, ar ja, llyna draba ar droed, ag amal kri ar fon kro [...]s, llyna r oes flin, ar vii wythnos heb hindda, ar ddeg ar hrgein yn rhegedfa, llynar Amser yn rgos, i ddangos a ddigona.
The Translation, Owen of Dardans stock, Owen the nimble Knight, Owen from Owen the propheeyed Conquerour, when the men of Norway will come with their sharp Axes, then will they retreat like Swine for fear of Owen with the red hand: Bristol will be without a Porter, London in open fear, and crying to Dover, fl [...]mes of the white Sun, and [...]rost, then pitiful deeds are a foot, with much crying at the foot of Crosses, then will be the tedious age, and the seventh week without fair weather, and 30 in posting and running, then the time is at hand, to manifest it, will be very irksom and wearisom.
A Prophecy of Merlin Ambros fore-telling the raigning sinnes of this Island by means of the Bishops of Great Brittain: And that the Kingly Government shall fall upon the earth, lastly that the Bull shall bear the Imperial rule at Sea, who will be both just and invincible.
Yr Esgobion a lwybrant i ddrwg weirhredoedd, ag yna y gollyngir gwaed ar y ddayar, ag yr halogir y Temlav, ag i bidd ffyrn grwydd gorthrwm, a fferhud sodom, yna i bydd treyswyr a d [...]mon a gasaant gyfwwnder, ag a gar aut y kam, a bradwyn Rhutaui a Amkan [...]ut o heddiw hid y forn i farnu rkam, ag i ado rwwn er kael da.
Ag yn y dy ddiav hyny y bidd dyniou ysklyfaid, yn udonol a garan [...] i gobrau er kadaru hav y kelwydd, ag i dileyia kyfraith a gwirionedd, yna i b dd kwnw f ar y ddayar mewn llawer o levedd ag yn r ynysoedd.
Ar brenhinavthav a balla ar ddymon ag ar y ddayar, ar ddayar adewir yn ddifaeth, ag yna i bidd newin Mawr yny Gristnogaeth, ag ni all vn dd [...]llin ddiddanv ywgilida yna i bidd Tyrnas ddrudlawn, a Phobl dra feilchiou a ffawb yn gorllwyn, yna i bidd Anarlloes, y kiw ar Tarw a gerdda, a Chryfder y morvedd a sathra, ag in chait neb or fud ar ddin tra for Tarw yn dwyn i fowyd, Trigarog fudd ef a Chadarn gyfion.
The Translation. The B [...]shops shall lead to wicked deeds; then will be [...]ffusion of blood upon the earth, Temples will be vilified and contemned, cruel oppression shall raign, with the sins of Sodom, then will be wrongful doers and people which will hate righteousness, and Lovers of wrong; then the treacherous people of Rome will comb [...]ne and plot from day to day for lucre sake to maintain the wrong, and seize the right, and in these dayes people wil be Perjurers, wildy, and without Conscience, Lovers of rewards for strengthening of lyes and falshood, and then Justice and the righteousness of the Law will be delayed, then will be combustion and distraction upon the [Page 81] earth, in divers places, and in the Islands.
And Kingly Governments will fall amongst men and upon the earth, and the earth will be left desolate, then will be a g [...]eat Famine in Christ [...]ndom, so that no man can help or relieve another; then, there will be a full and a deer Kingdom, then people will hardly recover this misery.
The Chicken and the Bull will go with freedom, who shall trample the strength of the Sea, there shall be no oppression made while the Bull liveth, who will be merciful, strong and just.
By the Chicken and Bull is meant the Protector.
A Prophecy of Taliesin, pretending a discourse with the Coronog Faban, the Brittish Conqueror, wherein he foretells what kind of world will follow.
Koronog Fabau, daw bid Priddfawr, daw bid chvdd bron Tarrian, daw bid briw bron Tibr, daw bid y bydd argyffwr, daw bid y bydd saith wraggedd am r vn gwr, daw bid, prid wrth ddillad, gwaglaw ba [...]dd, hardd yffeiriad, drvd pob Bvgail a g [...]ilwad, in farcha mab mai fam nai dad, daw bid pridwrth gymni, brevddwydiol pawb trwy i bvn gnawd, kau eidion ir vn dyn, a devddeg vn heb r vn daw bid prid wrth or llwyn hidl ddeigr wybyr ar llwybyr llwyn, a ddy mvno pobl pawbai kwyn.
The Translation, Coronog Fabau, There will come a very sad and sorrowful time, there will come a time, when the brests of Targets be free, there will come a time, when the brests of Towers be bruised, there will come a time, that there shall be bickering; There will come a time, that there shall be seven women for one man; there will come a time, that people shall want clothing, Beirdhes not respected, and the Clergy in sumptu us habits, Shepherds and Ox-drivers pretious, children will not honour and respect Father and Mother, there will come a time, that the Sacrament will scarcely be had, and that people will be moved to dream in their sleep of meer fear [Page 82] and terror, one man shall possess a 100 beasts, and 12 men without none: There will come a time that people will be weeping and mourning in woods and bushes, and people will repent of their own requests.
Another short (but mistical) Prophecy of Taliesin, concluding upon the late Conquest.
- 1. bid s. wyddeles yn w [...]ddillion.
- 2. bid ffrwy [...]h [...]gy fall bid ball ar seeson.
- 3. bid M. ar grwydir wedi brwydir vnion.
- 4. bid h. yn rhychor ynghor eugylion.
- 5. bid l. ddig wyn a ddwyn gelynion.
- 6. bid nawyn osbarth ar arth Aughyfwn.
- 7. b [...]v yno Gymro yn kymrvd Alltidion.
The Translation, Let S. the Irish be the leavings.
The children of Belial will be fruitful, and the English in want.
Let M. be wandering after a right distraction.
Let H. be chiefest in the seat of Angels.
Let L. without commiseration carry enemies.
Let 9. be Controler of the unrighteous Bear.
Let a Welchman then be taking of the Lame.
A Prophecy of Merlin Silvestris, setting forth by way of discourse with his sister Gwendilina, many noteable signs and manifest tokens already past, as also the Brittish Conqueror.
Qu. Gwenddidd yn gofin, Beth a dderfedd minav drvau Genedl gilledigawl.
An. Ateb. Diamav se ddaw gwr Arh gwerid i guel yrh kyfiownder, ag a ddengis i saeson i gwaith ai hau ag am i twyll l koll [...]ut i haur hydedd.
Qu. Pa brid fidd hyny.
[Page 83] An. Pau gympor delway ar padrevav, ag yn auamal lloswyrav a gweddiav.
Qu. Pa brid fidd hyny.
An. Pau fo r od, ar glaw, ar vd yn Ffaeli [...]w, y drvd svd a ddaw yn ddiogel.
Qu. Pa brid sydd hyny.
An. Pau fo r Croesav wedi kolli i h [...]nway, a hanner y frwyn av, ag yn fawr i eisiav, y tlawd mewn dadlev am d [...]n vn, ag yn fawr kri y kyfoethog, a llaw er a ym gyraut i gael gormoddiaut, yna i daw Pregethwyr britbwn digllon i diodd [...].
Qu. Pa brid fidd hyny.
An. Pau fo r tlawd mewn an obaith o gassael kowaeth i bidd gwell bwa a saeth na biwrch i roi llaeth.
Qu. Pa bidd fvdd hynny.
An. Pau fo Prif yn bvm rhau a Phob mau ar gyrhwyn, yna idaw gwres ifyn wes fy myddir yri, ag i daw y Tiroedd Arawydir vn llaw yn Porthi, ag Aberth drwy ddyfin, yn ddifai oi berchi, a bwrwkadkenedl y gwaethlin waeth waeth drwy i Amherchi, yna i daw bran yn ddiomav ymisg mynidd yr yri, ag oi nerthi chwarddwn ag i byddwn ddigri.
The Translation, Gwendolina demanded of her Brother Merlin, what shall become of us poor, miserable, and lost Nation?
An. Without all doubt, there wil come a man that wil relieve you from your bondage, and will manifest unto English their unrighteous works, and will repay to the great Ones of England their falshood, and for their Treachery will lose their honour.
Qu. When wil that be?
An. When Images and Beads will fall, and when a Ave-Maries and Prayers to Saints be grown thin.
Qu. When will that come to pass?
An. When Snow, Rain and Corn falls, then questionless a deer time will come.
Qu. When will that be?
An. When Crosses lose their names, the earth yield but [Page 48] half her cropp and fruit, and great want of the same, the poor in great distress for it, and the rich likewise grumbling, then many will strive to get overmuch, but for their Covetousness they shall lose all, then will come pide Preachers, whose coming will be very irksom and troublesom to suffer.
Qu. When will that be?
An, When the poor be without hopes of getting riches, then it will be bet [...]er to have a Bow and Arrow than a Cow to give milk.
Qu. When wil that come to pass?
An. When the prime be the fift part, and every place in going, there will come a heat to the bosom of my world at Snoden, and then wil all the Lands which was divided, come to one hand to seed us, a [...]d offering through summons justly to reverence, and slighting the Army of the enemy more and more. Then (out of all doubt) will come a Raven from the Borders of Snoden hill, through whose strength we shall rejoyce and be glad.
Another Prophecy of the same Merlin Silvestris, setting out a dissenting Parliament, which will be the grounds of warres, with manifest Predictions and Progress of such warre.
Am ffydd Bethlem a Chaorselem, gorfvd fvddi genedl bedidd, dwy flynedd di hedd, a hanner y drydidd, hinon i winedd, koel kyn kdlanedd, Parliament kynddeiriog brad pau i gwneler, yno i bidd derhce rhwng devlv olo [...]gir, y na [...] bidd rhwng gwy a hofren niferav, yna i bidd llevad a llew mewn glew hyder, yna i byd llougav balrh bvchedd ynghonlau, yno i bidd gwiddil yn dyfvd am ben rhuddla [...], yna i bidd llawenarh rhianeda oherwydd i dwedau Amgilch ffrydie kaswennan, a di [...] ster ar y lau yna i hidd treiswyr yngwistlon, yna i bidd swyddog yng harchar, yna a bidil gwall ar saeson, a thrais a lled rad ag ymm hell gariad yngwlad Brithon.
Yna i bidd haf gwnawg, a Chy nhayaf basolawg, a gaiaf [Page 85] ydawg, yna i biddr havl yni ddevwres, yna i bidd y badd yn oeici, yna i bidd Rhvs ap Rhvs a ddyf in gwys, a chyfel ar frvs hid fookaer, yna i bidd chwng Aber peryddon a chvdy Tysod dvon y mae [...] ar y saeson, yna kin pen y flwyddn kad kocsfochn [...], yno i bidd gweddi wyr Jesso heb ormessiaid, yna i bidd en kill ar hil sexbardiaid, yna i bidd talam wa [...]w [...]r yn dar par Owen, ynoi gwaeir tri chyfodiad, ag enkiliad ddwywaith, ag yn y dvydiddi bidd bid brith wrthfodd ynghalon.
The Translation. That the Baptized Christians (meaning the Brittaines) sh [...]ll have the conquest of the faith of Be [...]hlehem and Jerusalem (meaning the faith of Christ and his Apostles) at the beginning of warr, the first two years and moyetie of the third will be sometimes war sometimes peace, and then a slaughter wi [...]l follow, that a dissenting Parliament will be seen, then treachery will be seen when it is made, then will England divide themselxes, and with two armies fight together, then will be armies between Wye and Seve [...], then will a Moon and a Lion have a strong confidence, then will be ships with proud lines at Camlan, then will the Irish trot by Rvddlan, then maids will make good sport at the streams-issuing at Caswennan, upon whose borders will be slaughter, then oppressors will be in bondage, and yawn, then a Ruler will be confined, then English will be in extremity, then fraud and thee very and want of love will be in the land of Brittain.
Then will be a white summer a sorry harvest, and morn-winter, then a contribution will be assessed, which will never be levyed, and the party that will order it will never recover; then the sun will be in its double heat, and the hot Bath waxe cold, and Rees ap Rees w [...]ll summon Tennants, sudden warrs shall be to the borders of Chester or some other Citie.
Then the Engl [...]sh will have battels from Aperper yddon to the foord of Tyfoddvon, and then before a twelve mon [...]h comes about will a battel at Kocksfochno, then the humble suiters of Jesus will be free of devourers, then will the race of Saxons and Normans be forced no flight.
Then our mock [...]ng for our predicting of Owen will be homely [Page 86] revenged, then will three risings be made, and a retreat twice, and in the third a merry world according to my hearts desire.
A prophesie to take notice of.
Gwilia Pau welich rew gwilie a chilurg a chalau ar ddifie a gwauwyn llwm ymhob lle a phr [...]fi pimp or prifie.
When a frostie Christmas comes, and New-years day on Thursday, a barren spring and the prime V.
Take notic of this year 57.
A song of Taliesiu, against ignorant Beirdhes and Musicians.
First he rebukes the unskilfull Poets and Harpers, and saith that the Bardh which cannot controle him should be put to silence, but poureth forth his prayers to God for such that observe his counsel & directions, and saith that Elphin ap Gwiddn [...] was murdered for landing his Tutor, and interred in the earth of Arthtro, and that hee was Taliesin cheif of the western Beirdhs, and that he would set Elphin at liberty from his p [...]ecious bonds, surely he alludes at the resurrection, by the sound of the trumpet of an Angel.
A prophesie of both the Merlines of the coming of Owen the Conquerour after the year 1640.
Pau fo oedc [...]n mab duw yn vil a 6 C a lx mylyn edd, yno i daw Owain yn wir, i gleduv dd [...]r, dir i daw, agyn [...]ber Tawe y llevad o lau hafren, O wain ar i law, ag i dir katwg Rhysel byth n [...]dd iddi Rhag llaw. gwilied pawb ramser.
The Translation. When the year of Christ comes to 1660, then verily Owen will come with his sword of his steel; will he come? with the moon from Civern bank, and Owen on his hand, and then warrs shall never come to the land of Katwg. Let the time be observed.
A prophesie of Taliesin of great warrs, wherein the French and English will confederate together, and then Castles shall be destroyed; but a Britain shall overcome them, and then a good world will follow.
The Translation. Behold I do clearly forsee and prophesie the advance of Brittaines, at such time when English and French will joyn together with armes and armies, then strong Castles and Towers shall be made weak, and then will be a dangerous time, then will these English and French seek Towers and Castles, in the behalf of him which will be possessor (or owner) [Page 88] of multitudes, or armies, then will be sharp fightings at sea but a gracious person will come, who through his own free motion shall destroy (or overcome them) and then Brittaines will wear them out and be chiefe, and then from a bad world will become, stand, and continue, a good and merry world.
A prophesie of one of the ten Sybils, setting out the destruction of many Countries and Isles by the Turk, the Calamitie of the Church and State through all Europe, the fall of Emperours, Kings, Princes, Pope, Bishops and Cl [...]rgie, with several punishments, and signes of the same, of a British Conquerour and Reformer of the world.
The Turks shall destroy many Christian Isles nigh unto them, the Countries of Armony, Phrygia, Denmark; Norway shall be sore debatled, so that many good Countries in Christendome (without help or victory) shall be destroyed, the Castles standing upon the river of Tyber at Rome, upon the river of Ridonya in France, and upon the river of Danubia in Almayn, or Germany shall be subverted and cast down; so likewise in Spain, by reason of marvellous great floods which shall come to the said Rivers; the Countries of Dardania shall be brought to great ruine, because of great and marvellous earth-quakes which shall happen there.
Between the Arroganes and the Spaniards shall be great debate and tribulation, and then there shall be no peace or love amongst them, until such time, that their Countries and Kingdomes be utterly destroyed; the Countrey of Gasgoyne shall bewail their great calamity.
After the year of our Lord God 1647 shall come, the universal Church of all the world shall lament and be sorrowfull.
Shortly after shall be great destruction, robbing and extreme wasting of the most noble and the most famous Citie, which is the Lady and head of all Christendome.
Every Church throughout all the would shall be spoyled [Page 89] and deprived of their temporalities, under the signes and motion of Saturn and Venus in the tayle of the Dragon.
And then there shal not be so great a man in the Church, but he shal be weary of his life, Churches shal be befouled and made profane places.
All manner of Religi [...]ns shal be put unto violence, for very fear and fright of the most cruel Ire.
The He [...]dmen and the Heads of all Churches shal be expulsed and put from their dignities.
Prelates shal be st [...]iken with the rod or scourge of punishment, and shal flie from their houses, and shal so remain despised in sundry places, and shal likewise remain stil without any Leaders or Governours.
The Governour of all Churches shal role and flye, and finde no place of refuge or securitie, and the temporal men shal be turned from the Church, and there shal be no defence or resistance for the space of 22 months.
Neither the Bishop of Rome, nor the Emperour, neither a rightful King in France by the space of three years.
The wrath of God f [...]r sin shal fal upon the world, and for man fold sins and false judgment, all Elements shal be changed, fear and dread shal remain.
Castles and strong Towers shal fal down, and be subverted by fear of earth-quake that shal happen.
The fruit of the earth shal faile, the roots of plants shal putrifie, and waxe deaf and rotten, seeds wil fal.
The sea shal roar and crye against the world, and shal overflow and swallow divers and many ships.
The Air shal be pestilentious and noisom, for the malice and iniquity [...]f men.
The heavens shal shew divers and manifold marvelous signs and tokens.
The sunne shal waxe dark, and also shal appear red of colour, many starrs shal fight together, which shal be a sign of destruction and killing of men.
Two moons shal be seen at once, almost by the space of four houres, divers passions, sorrowes, and deadly sicknesses, and [Page 90] also sudden deaths shal be as wel in men as in bruit beasts.
Pestilential sickness and miserable deaths shal be in the most part of the world, as was never heard of.
All the Countrey of Bononia shal loose all the company and flower of its Clergy and Learning.
The Countrey of Lotheringe shal lament and bewail the great spoyling, robbery and losses.
The Countrey of Campaigne shal lament and bewaile, and require help of the Neighbours adjoyning, of whom they shal have none, but shal be utterly robbed, wasted and consumed.
Ireland and Scotland shal be invaded by more Brittains, and shal convert part of the countrey there:
To whom shal come in aided a young Captain, or Knight, and convert the crown of the L [...]l [...]e & have dominion throughout the universal world, and he shal be an off-spring and branch of the children of Brute, and the memory of them shal remain for [...]ver.
After these manifold tribulations, miseries and chastisements, wil the God of heaven send a Reformer of the Church & State, which wil be an Emperour, and this shal reform the Church after the rule and order of the disciples of Christ, and all men shal him dread and follow; he shal revocate and cal again the people from their great errors and evil lives, and bring them to the faith of the holy Church.
Many Infidels he shal convert, and bring them to the faith of Christ, by whose help, the world shal be brought to rest and peace the displeasure, wrath and punishment of God shal cease, then shal be one perfect faith, men then shal love together faithfully, and so the world shal endure and continue, &c.
Agreeable to the last prophesie of Sibylla, is the judgment of th [...] famous Doctor in Astrologie, Master John Cip [...]ian, as also of Tarquatus Vandrivus student in the Art Magick.
Oxford, Cambridge, Wittemberg, and Padua, you glorious Universities of Christendome, take truce for a season, with your [Page 91] deep inspiring sciences, and vouchsafe to fixe your ingenious judgment upon this wonderful prophesie of Doctor John Ciprian, who said out of his deep ju [...]gment,
That the angry heavens, by fearful visions, fore-dooming comets and strange comminations of planets, doth p [...]ogn [...]sticate to the sinful world, the alterations of Christian Kingdomes, fal of Princes, overthrow of Common-wealths, defolation of Countries, and ruine of Cities, Townes and Villages, earth quakes, floods, and mighty tempests, whereby the whole world wil be annoyed.
Also by the variable cou [...]se of the Elements, all Nations under the circuit of the sunne wil be vexed with bloody warrs, famine, death, scarcity, with many other strange and fearful accidents, aswel in Europe as Africa and Asia; all which wil come to pass for the manifold sins of the world, wherein all the earth is drowned, as in a gulf, past all recovery, except the Majesty of God out of his meer mercy prevent it by our timely repentance.
This Judgment is mystically laid down for a Glass to them that understand, and a reproof for the obstinate.
In the North borders of the earth is scituated a Forrest triangle wise, environed with a wall of brass; from which Forrest shal flie a fortunate Fowl, that shal swim over to the borders of Africa, and there light upon a golden Tree, from whence shee shal pluck 3 branches of gold, and so triumphantly return back to the Forrest again; at which there shal an Eagle, which built her nest upon a golden Steeple, so much repine, and send forth secret fires, to burn and waste the said Forrest, but every one shal be quenched before the blast be kindled, many Princes of the earth shal seek by policy to hunt therein, but at the gates thereof they shal take a great repulse: So fortunate and fruitful shal this F [...]rrest be, and so invincible her Towrs of brasse, that all the Kingdoms of the earth shal admire her fortitude and prosperity, and grace her with that title of Blessed Paradice, which God [Page 92] gave Adam at the worlds creation; after this, the Sea shal be mightier than the Land, for the corners of the earth shal meet and fight a terrible battel, wherein a mightie man shal be overthrown.
In the West shal lurck a bloody Serpent in a den, which hath not seen the light these many years, but yet this bloody Serpent shal not prevail against this blessed Forrest. A leaf of octo is wanting, which makes the prophesie curtayled.
A Dove shal be lifted up to great honour, by two golden Lions, and receive a crown of Gold, but after all these things shal the end of the world approach, therefore there shal be heavy and pitiful dayes, with much warrs, and alteration of the world, &c.
Out of the same Bo [...]k.
A Bird of a noble Nest shall be brought to England on a horse of Tree, and shall change from Army to Army.
In those dayes shall a King be slain, of Saudiford in Albion, and the Leyth shall he be, and in his own Garden sociated, a stout Knight in that storm, a Bugle horn shall blow, and raise up his rayses to run with open mouth, to slay him that was never born of the blacked Crow: Flanders and England shal fall at dissention, because of the falseness of Traytors untrue, therefore a Dragon shall be their confusion.
When the dead man shall set on his Crown
Then shall the world turn up side down,
And Troy on truth, shall tremble that day
For dread of the dead man, when they hear him say,
A dead man shall rise, that will be wonder,
This man shall settle right and good order.
Out of Heaven many tokens and wonders shall be seen, the Sun shall be darkened and lose his light, and shal rain blood in [Page 93] diverse Countries, after shall appear many tribulations and miseries over all the world.
Then he that will be Protector in England, shall be crowned King in London, with great solemnity amongst his Peers, and he shall raign over England 55 years.
Rhan o Broffwydolieth Jevau o drwch y darau, fore-telling of the fall of Ministers, and of great warres.
Pob chiw lygaid a wyla, pob rhiw dasod a orha, poh rhiw galon a fydd Chwern kanis kariad a balla, a Chenfigen ar d [...]pgioni a amtha, in bidd mwy yna dora kysegr na thorry bvarth gwarth [...]g, yr Eglwys wyr a sethrir yn harger, ag a litlir i hirddas, gwsnaethwyr dvw a drvisir yn ddibrid, yr skolheigion ar gwyr lleu a allivdir, ag in rheir digon odreisw Armin, y llvgwn a gymeraus gyfoeth yr Eglwyss yn Anghyfreith lon heb gydwybed, neb rhiw an rhydeddir Eglwys ins gwelir.
Phav dderhrever destrowior ynys hon, mal y dowad eryro gaer Septon, yna y Brittained a dyruasa, ar Albau a gymmeraut yn i kymdeithus, a hefyd Britauaid gida r [...]kotiaid a dyrnassa dref i Tad.
The Translation. Every eye shall weep, every heart shall groan, and tongues shall moan; for Love will fall, envy and malice will grow; Then holy Churches will be defiled and vilified, of no better account than Sheeps-fold, the Clergy will be shrowdly trampled under seet, and their Hierarchy will faile and fall, the Servants of God will be oppressed without mercy: The great Scholars and Preachers will be clipt and lamed, and never enough of such game, and the great and powerful men will unjustly and without mercy possess themselves of the g [...]ods and rights of the Church, and then the Church will be without honour or respect.
The when this Island will fall to destruction by the sword (according to the Prophecy of the Eagle of Caersepton) the [Page 94] Brittains will possess and rule, and will be associated with the Scots, then Brittains and Scots will enjoy their own.
A Prophecy of Taliesin, shewing that the prophecyed Conqueror should be of the race of the Brittains, and of the late war exactly.
Gobaith Rhag llaw y daw i lywendd, a ffob devnvdd yn y [...] gweiriaw, gwyr a meirch marthogion llyrh in yn ar gyr [...] wyn, Allynges ar d [...]aws yn hwil [...]aw ir wen ynys a ddaw, emys llydaw llwydwn fdirh ogion ymmon a ddaw, Pau ddel dihavarch lvobarth Gledd, i Aherhodin die i devaut, ll [...] tramvwrhel tonnav glau Teifi tri brevddwyd a brofir i fo [...] yn wir, Tair Rhaudir yn ymrysson, Tair blynedd blaen wy [...] y glowir, Tair naw a ddwg Frwyth, wediyr Wyth y Gwysceir, Tair Asgell well a gynhelir, Tair Bvwch mewn b [...] ch mewn bvches in Welir, Tair in myn efgorav gwasgorav pob rhaudir, Tair Gwraig ar lawr, Maeyn gowir, vn y [...] lle y ddwy a gynhelir, kyn vllawg ywr Amfer, lloegir yr llew gostyngir.
Mi a ddanfon af vaen a thri Mor ynddaw, ag awnaf gafad a main brwdith ddestrowiaw, mi a wnaf Baladr o lydaw mi a Anfonaf A [...] lodav kwn yrh bwyfaw, mi a Ansonaf Enwir ir lle i daw, Mi anfonaf wledd or sygnedd ir N [...]bai haeddaw, mi anfonaf wiail i flodevaw, mi anfonaf ddiweddir anghowirion, mi Rad yn y Morar don.
Mi Assoda ffynon yn rvchelion, mi asoda Rysel yn r he [...] elynyon, mi assoda laww mewn saith Aberon, mi Anfonaf mifer yn berchnogion, fal y bor byd yn y nrysson, mi asod [...] blvar y rhai Noethion, ag a ro Jechyd yr rhai kyfwn, mi asoda y kowaith yn ryon, Pvm naw a ddeholant estrouron, [Page 95] Pvm tri yn ymryson bleidiav, Gracia Tempora terra, Tarw Maen Mawrir llawr a ollyngof, llynges ar foroedd am diroedd a dram wyas.
The Translation, Saith Taliesin, I will first speak of the long and hot Summer, when the Plains be plenty of the nourishing Grain, and of the broad Conquest of the gray and nimble Buck, where he will come armed with this party from the West, being the chief conquering Warriour, with everlasting hopes, that he shall enjoy mirth and happiness, and that all preparations shall be in a readiness, Men, horses and Knights from Brittanie in France in preparation: A Navy will sail to the white Island (or Brittain) which will land in Anglesey, when a mighty strong Army cometh from Milford, and the parts adjacent to wards an Army which shall controle the waves of Cardigan Seas and Streams, in accomplishment of the three dreams.
You shall see three Kingdoms in Contestion, Bickerings and threatenings of wars for three years, three nines will produce a fruitful Issue: after eight they shall wear, three of the best wings will be maintained up, three kines together shall not be seen, three irrecoverable routed wings, and dispersed here and there to all parts, three women down, it will prove true, that one will be supported up insteed of the rest: That time will be a time of gathering, England will be subdued to the Lyon.
Saith Taliesin, I will send a Pearl with three Seas in it, and will make a shower with a [...]o [...] fiery perl to destroy thee, I will make a Beam from little Brittain, I will send members of dogs to eat thee, I will send falshood to the Land, where it comes, I will send a feast from the main Ocean to them that deserve it, I will send a Tree that shall hold on his leaves, I will send Rods to blossom, I will send an end to the false, I wil send a blessing to the Sea and its waves.
I wil set a Fountain in the highest, I wil set wars amongst the old enemies, I wil fill up seven harbours, I wil send many to bear rule and own, that the world may be in strife, I wil set plumes on the naked, and wil send health to the just, I wil [Page 96] put the riches in variance, 5 nines wil make a partition of strangers, 5 threes the Wolves wil be in Contestion, Gratia, tempora, terra: The great pearled Bull I wil let fal to the earth, and wil sail a Navy over Seas to conquer Kingdomes.
A Prophecy of Taliesin, wherein is shewed the progress of the late wars, Mountgomery fight, the demolishing of Mountgomery Castle, the late Kings treaties, A victory of the Brittish Conqueror over the said King and his Son.
Ag yn y lle ma Rhiw, Rhvdd, digowain iddi, a gwragedd ll [...] egir yn rhoi llefain, i loegir y devant, Rhan terfynav a fynaut gwedi amyl gynborav mawr, a mynch dorri, a brad a brwydrav rhng trofi, a North i Eskyrn seynt, a brain ar gefn gweilgi, a thorrv gwarrogaeth Normandi, ar Goron a lithir i Eryr o Gymrv, ag a gyfyd a bid daioni, a chyfcithie Newydd, Pau [...]wilio Beli, diergryd byd ar gyrhwyn, dav ge nav yn Rhydd or vn Gofin, dav Goronog eiddiog Sydd n, dav gadyr ni obeidw i terfin, Koronawg lli diawg llydan i ter, ha [...]l o hvl Griffith, a enwir i gal wau gytau kywie ni chyfr anna din,
Ag ynwye aevnaw mylynedd yn hedd, gwedi gwledd dev ddeg yn rhyfel diargul, a ddyfi, daiargryd tir oddiar for heli, llv yn ar fog ar faeth Eryr brithon Tirion taer a orfydd.
The Translation. A powerful Navie from four quarten wil batter down castles and citi [...]s, and furiously run to Powys and destroying of cities, and then in Powys wil be red armes with much wo and crying; and the place upon a sleepie hil wil be made without habitation and concourse of people, then English women wil make an out-crie and lamentation, from thence the conquering party wil march to England, and wil be possessed of their share by meates and bounds, and this wil come to [Page 97] pass after many great counsels and divers breaches of truce, and after much treachery and distraction between cities and citizens, and the discovering of the bones of saints, and crowes and ravens on the ocean sea.
Then the Allegiance to the Normans wil be cut off, and the Crown wil sl [...]p to the Eagle of Wales, and this wil arise and produce a happy world, and new Lawes.
When this Belinus or great Conquerour wil appear, times of thraledom, perplexity, wil begin to vanish, then the 2 Whelps wil be dismiss [...]d of their se [...]zed dens and these two wil be crowned, and their Armies wil be ful of jealousies, 2 keepers which wil not keep their meares and territories, two which wil be crowned, but fierce and of large dimensions, liberal, and of the race of Griffith; and these two Kings shal cal the faithful and loyal false and treacherous, and these wil not divide and share. And surely there shal be eighteen yeares of peace, and after this feasting time there wil succeed twelve years of warrs, and this wil come to pass very cunning and politick according to predictions, and then wil Lands be conquered from the sea, and the Eagle of Brittain with advice of his wise Council, and strength of his army and sharp armes, wil fairly overcome and conquer.
Take notice that the two crowned Whelps are said to be of the race of Griffith; to satisfie the Reader herein, I must borrow a piece of history from Doctor Powels Chronicle, fol. 97.
In the year of Christ 1050, and in the time of Griffith ap Llewelin Prince of Wales, Makbeth King of Scotland caused a noble man of his, named Baucho, to be cruelly murthered, where upon Fleance the son of the said Baucho, escaping the hands of Makbeth, fl [...]d to Griffith ap Llewelin Prince of Wales, where being courteously entertained, and within few years after fel in love with the Princ [...]s daughter, and got her with childe, and was delivered of a son named Walter, who in few years proved a couragious Spark; this Walter on a time fell [...]ur with one of his companions for calling him a B [...]stard, [Page 98] and slew him; and to avoid the danger of the Law, fled to Scotland, and was there entertained. and came at last to such favour with the Scottish King, that he was made steward of the Kings revenue; and this steward from Griffith is the original of stewards, the late Kings of Scotland, &c.
A Prophesie of a Prophet called the Bergam of Maelor in Denbigh-shire, wherein notable things are foretold, with the Conquerours descent from the principality of Powis, and North-Wales.
Traethas a ddywodwyf, Rhyddyd Marchogedd o hyd dydd, avr byddyd kyngor i a for, y kyfyd Gwynedd ar soloch moch, dibechod minav ymhyradwys, gwys synghynau lleision fy marchyma chwydd erwau, tithev syngemad ganvad gwynfau, devno da dvw ev hvnau.
Pau gottolero Priodawe k [...]nau, gwae sais ynaros trais, gwedi traws goronon, llidiog Taleithiawg, a Thaleith law mon, diegryd ar fryd bryd Priodorion, llew llidiawg am gaer lleon, mal Rhod gorfod am kad koed meirion, hwn ywr amser y Terfin Eilon, or dehev Rhyfig arson, llyvyrawg yn arson ar Erhwydd, Pau vo Gwinedd ynghy fedd gwedi hedd a goffwy.
Pau so kysauedd Gwinedd hinon, a chyladdfau kwynfau meiddion, haf tossog eiddiwg brinhon ffrwytog, 7 fall a Phall ar sa [...]fon, brigawg blaen kwys dwys ym dr [...]chon, a Felider dan draed a gwaed am Goron, ag Anfad yn Rhod rheon.
The Translation. I wil declare and speak, that the dayly riding of a Knight wil be marvelous, when wary advice wil be as precious as gold to a seaman, then molestation from North-Wales wil arise to the swines, then wil we be in Paradise without offence, by force of summons and large horses of Kynau, notwithstanding their weak grumbling, and thou, my message, make the cursed groan at the act of our good God.
When the lawful owner of the rights and inheritances of Kynau wil arise and appear, who be unto an English, which wil be in the time of death coming, after his wrongful coronation. [Page 99] This frowning Prince and Lord of Anglesey, Lordships wil go on with his purpose for his lawful patrimony, and he shal be a fierce Lyon for Chester, and the Oak of Merioneth and their strength wil be turned like a wheel; this is the time that wil bring a period to strangers, and with proper right relieve Anglesey, when the cowardly enemy in arms peeps Caernarvon, and when North-Wales be in a straight and troubles, then wil peace and happiness appear; and then wil they boldly dare, bury their former miseries and troubles, then shal be seen a hot and stormy summer, which wil produce fruitful trees, and miserie to some English, fair issues wil follow their breaches, and their contestion wil be very hot and sharp, then the Church wil be trampled, streams of blood for a crown, and a mighty great one ruling the freedom.
A prophesie of the same Bergam for shewing great warrs in behalf of a crown, and that the race of Kynvn wil get the conquest according to the wil of God.
Traethaf it sardd daf, kau wyt kyfauedd am gof diergit byd, bryd ar hvnnaw, ddedd y bydd hydd am fro ar gyn ydd ddifiav kaled.
Pau Frwy, ho yn koed a chad ymryn Gwyn, Meibion am Goron Amgyserfydd, Pau cnwarddo ovydd, Gwaith am sylv dav Gwydd, ag yn ddiffaith maith ymdaith mynydd.
Arth o Gyufin, Rhin chyddid, Powis a ddewis nis Adewis, a fyno dvw diav a fydd, un dan kysau kyfar a fydd byd.
The Translation. I wil declare unto thee, skilful Bardh, that shal remember the intolerable misery of old, to them which pass away the same in slumber, but when wil a Stagg be in a prospering way for lawful Territories, and when wil that hard Thursday come?
When Trees and Woods begins to flourish and beare, and when an Army be about the Tower, then Lads wil meet for a crown, when the distressed and sad takes heart and laughs, then [Page 100] wil be work about the flowers of a forrest, then it wil be dangerous to travel over wide and large mountains.
A Bear from Kynvin wil give deliverance, whom Powis shal choose, and never forsake; whatsoever God purposeth, d [...]ubtless shal come [...]o pass; one shal bear rule for all, and the world shal be kinde and peaceable.
A prophesie of the same, presenting newes to North and South-Wales, of the Brittish Conquerour, and very notable passages.
Pe gwybyddai Gwynedd ar dehev, a wnio Ryvig dau Rwysev, in byddam ar ddyrain hidlon ddagrav, i byddain Anobaith ir maith chwedlav, ar Enkillir ail genavet ddigwydd, kaen wybodav, Traetha iti eto, ymron kad ath fad enav, y kysano lloer llemsin kleede, Ac [...]ol a ddenant kad blaen blodev, Arsog Arvthir kadav mon, yn Aros llios llongav, gwae sais yn aros trin tri d siav.
Tra [...]tha di i wynedd wirion wedd, gwedi tral lawd hid frawd ynhiw fvd a ddyfi sal Taran gwynsau ynglau llywein, gwedi. Talaith maith, mabogydwybawe a rvdd Achwyn yn trefi, ag yngwyn fryn llwe llawer orhi.
The Translation: If North and South-Wales knew what I foresee and know, of liberty from thraldom, they should not be troubled with bitter tea [...]es in their expectations, neither would they be doub [...]ful of our promises predicted of long time; for the second Whel [...] wil be forced to flight, as they may be assured the [...]eof by our predictions: I wil tel thee yet, that near the approaching of a warlick enemie, and before the change of a moon, a sharp edg [...]d sword wil appear, at the borders of both brooks, an Army wil appear before blossom time, then the Army of Angl [...]sey wil be very wel accoutered in expectation of a wel ordered Navy; wo be unto an English being forced to expect the fa [...]e of 3 I hu [...]sdaies: Foretel thou to harmless North-Wales of upright intents, that after a long and tedious perplexity, a certain sudden and unexpected time wil come on, like [Page 101] whi [...]lewinde or thunderclap, which wil produce much groaning and heaviness: the praier of a principality lost long ago, wil bring in a conscientious man, which will move his enemies to be sensible of his invinc [...]ble power within townes and cities, and about the white Tower wil do the like.
A prophesie of Taliesin predicting warrs in the time of the Lyon of the race of Llewelin, and of the appearance of the Eagle of North Wales in such time.
Rhyfel Crv yngan Llewelyn lew, Pan ddiwedd Rhwyfan Eryr Rhwyfawe, Tynye, Tylodawe Annedd gost gan saason, Rhvthro brithon braith gadwynedd, Pau so grian fa kad gamlan gwaeddsau gwragodd, Gwerin yn gryd, a Chreveu gwa [...]d ar hyd kryssed [...], a braw llafnav, a Chas Angav Arvan Arvadd a berav garew, a gwye yn feiro o faieddi hedd, a diwedd y dydd kymro a orfydd, ag Engil ar ffordissaeth fro heb fren hinedd, a moeo lydan i bob maban mad i sonedd, oes fodd i bob dedwydd dibe [...]h bychedd; b chawd wyledd, Archant ar wawd ir hael drindawd can trigaredd.
The Translation. That the Lyon of Llewelin wil be an instrument of warrs and out-cries, but after the travels and sojourning of an Eagle, the sumptuous and costly building of the English wil be impoverished and demolished, and an Army of linsey winsey wil trouble and vexe the Brittains in North-Wales; then the women shal howle and cry for fear and terror of the unruly multitude, who wil shew themselves very terrible and cruel, and shed innocent blood in streams, then the sight of swords and weapons wil terrifie, and then they which the sword wil hate shal be put to lye on their ground, the harbours wil be filled up with fearful storms, and the long continuance of warr wil cause a marvellous sl [...]ughter of men; and by the end of the day, a Welsh wil overcome and conquer, and then the English enemy w [...]l be without a King, and forced to flye away, and in such time complements wil be most fine, and care to the [Page 102] Poorest vassals and to all degrees of persons, from such dissembling and counterfeit age let every righteous soul bless himself, and pray unto the liberal Trini [...]y for mercy and deliverance.
A prophesie of Taliesin of great warts in Brittain, and of the conquest of a Brittain, and the white harvest after such warrs, as also of an Englishm [...]n [...] last period.
I ddvw yr Archaf er i groes lettaf, nef ir enaid yr hynchri tiof, daroganaf yr hin a garaf, a gyrry yn ddysie yr dwse lletaf, ar y meirch lercennav yn e hyn brinnaf, Garfydded Brithon or brathkrntaf, o hytre eylon hyd hyfre ganon, y kynhaiaf Gwyn gwedi drvd ymladdon, byd anamyl er wain byd amal kelain, bed Bran or Gogledd, byd llv ar eochwydd, byd Gwynt ar hint garllaw Rhod wydd, byd sais ar drank, byd di gynvdd ar frank, byd kymry yn rhvdd rhwydd diaink, byd Rhysel yn dersin, byd pawbyn gweiddi, byd Pobl yn gryd rhag osa Engil y.
The Translation. Unto God I poure forth my prayer, for his sake that bare the large and free cross, that the righteous soules may enjoy heavenly bliss, which is the chief and most necessary wish: next I wil predict of that which is most deare unto mee, that is, that there may be a merry sending away to the broad ocean, on horses of trees, when there is most necessity, and that a Brittain with his Brittains may overcome the first a [...]tempt; then the white harvest will follow after their dear fighting, the slaughter shal be much, and the dead carkasses in heaps, a raven shal be from the North, an army shal be in going, let violent windes arise about the enemy to his destruction, then an English wil be near to destruction, and the French from such a day fall to decay and ruine; then the Welsh wil escape free from allegiance, and then such warrs wil bring a period, then wil be a general complaint and feeling of the smart of warr, and the people delivered from the fear of an English by force of continual warlick posture.
A prophesie of Taliesin, fore-telling, that after the raising of the graves and carkasses in the Church-yard of Corboe Chu [...]ch, a lamentable time wil follow, with signes and tokens of such troubles.
Gwedi kyfoder y Beddav ym mynwent axrbow ynoi bydd die i daw diabodde, ag Ellmin dreisiaw, a Gwendid yu lleisiaw llais orvoledd, llawer Ʋewiu a vydd, llawer dydd diliyr, llawer sais heb pais mewn pris kowir, llawer gwaiw llisaid, llawer gwr mewn llaid, llawer gwaed mewn dwr, a chynnwr ymmaus y goes, llawer kymro llawen, llawer sais hebi ben, llawer llen yn vnig, llawer kysrwy yn wag, llawer march yn chydd, llawen Gwyndodydd, ar llew yn Gorfod, a chymry yn dysod a ball yn lladd, a gwr o Angladd, ag ynlef ynghaer, el llefain yn daer, byd dydd llawen wedi Nodolig ymhob gradd.
The Translation. After the breaking up of the graves in Corboe Church-yard, then wil be dayes of trouble and revenge, the strangers of Germany wil commit fraud and oppression, the cryes and groans of the poor shal break forth, then there shal be much hunger, and sorry dayes, many English tumbling in coats most dear and true unto them, many deadly wounds by weapons, many a man groveling at the point of death, much effusion of blood in water, and an uproar in Maes y Groes, or field of the Cross, many a Welshman rejoycing, many English without he [...]ds, many pulpits destitute of Teachers, many saddles without their Riders, many horses without their owners; then the friendly party in North-Wales wil rejoyce at the victory and conquest of the Lyon, then Brittains wil be in advance, and he that shal loose wil murder; and the dead shal rise again, then wil be howling cities, cozening wil be common, and shortly after Christmass wil be a merry world to all degrees. The beheading of the King.
A prophesie of Taliesin, fore-telling the strange removal of marvellous great stones in North-Wales, from the bottom to the top of Aheigh, steepy and inaccessible hills, which came to pass some seventy years ago, and of changes, dissanting Parliament, and heavy warrs that should follow.
The Translation. When great and heavy stones be raised in North Wales, lifted up and removed from their ancient seats, and when all people and persons wil be honouring the chiefest, then wil be cruel falshood and contempt, a bruised Council, anger and sharp punishment; then the unjust shill be on horse, and the just and the innocent down, and fightings amongst all degrees, but not handsomly in [...]he field; hee that [Page 105] wil kill dead, wil be counted the bravest man; the loudest and biggest in speech wil be held the wisest, and then wil be scarcity of money, but sufficient of bread; and the dead wil make a dear and sorry barga [...]n, but without their cheife treasure with them.
Then North-Wales wil be divided here and there, but an univ [...]r [...]al and unexpected slaughter wil fall amongst them, and P. wil labour to send them afarr away, when the Stagg comes to the mountain of Assag, happy wil the wisest be then in Powis, violent and strong h [...] stages wil be fetch't to London; the P. from Llanelli wil entic [...]h [...]m to the su [...]e hold, then Irish wil be seen in Brittain land, and in Maelor the Great wil be preparations; then shal Snouden mountain be happy, and thenceforth the enemy of the English party shal fail.
Now to the Stones; which is very remarkable.
In accomplishment of this Prophesie, about years ago, in a place called Kw [...] Kowny in the County of Caernarvon, between two great hills there lyes a Pond of standing water, at the edg of which lyed two great Stones of admirable greatness and weight, yea so huge in greatness that a thousand yoak of Ox [...]n could not move them; but suddenly about the time aforesaid, these Stones were conveyed from the edg of the said Pool, towards the top of a very high, steep and inaccessible hill, above the said Pool, in distance 12 score, of perpendicular height, where they (and their first seats where they formerly stood) are to be seen to this day, and old people yet living which will justifie all this.
The removal of such Stones (I hope) will be granted miraculous, and if so, surely it pretended some strange event, for God shewed none in vainet
- 1. Wee finde that this came to pass about King Jumes his coronation in England.
- [Page 106] 2. That the Stones were in number two, and neither more nor less.
- 3. That they were removed from a barren bottom to a very high fertile hill.
- 4. That they were put to rest on the side of the top of the said hill, in a slippery place, and subject to tumble down.
To the first observation, it is vey probable, that seeing this came to pass before the coronation of King James, that is p [...]rtended his coming from a barren Countrey to wear a triplicite Crown.
To the second, that the Stones were in number two, did signifie that two and no more of that race should hold and e [...]joy the said triplicite Crown.
To the th [...]rd, that they were removed from a foggy and barren soyle, to the side of a wholesom fertile banck, did portend barren Sco [...]land, and fertile England.
To the fourth, that they were settled to rest in a slippery plane subject to role away, did portend what afterwards came to pass, that there was a possibil [...]ty to cast them down, or depose them.
And whereas, that they were seated over a perpendicular place, and in case they should be removed or rolled downwards, that then it was impossible (without the like miracle) they should again be brough [...] up.
That likewise portended, that if these Kings should be deposed, that there was a like impossibility they should never after be re-enthroned.
Well, this Prophet did fore-see some wonderfull passage, seeing it was fore-told, and that for the space of near 1100 years before this came to pass.
A prophesie of Taliesin, fore- [...]elling the coming of a mighty strong Conquerour to rule and heale the Brittains, and of great warrs in such time, with promise of peace.
Pau d [...]el y kada [...]n i gaer sal ves frau, i suddianv kymrv [...]ydd ygawl, amk [...]n i by [...]d brwyd r ar frys megis kad gamlan, ag ar [...]ry y bydd gwyl gwaiwa tharrian, [...]g o hyny all [...]n gwae sau o drais a gais hir deigsa.
The Translation. When the strong comes to the Citie, to heale and possesse the distempered B [...]ittains, in possib [...]lity, there wil be then c [...]nfusion, crosse meeti [...]gs and fightings shortl [...] after wil be a holy-day for P [...]kes, Targets and Arm [...]s, and from thence forth wo be unto an English for his opp [...]ession and continuance.
The Bergam.
Pallv yn y ffodd, ag ynil y Goron ar holl Geveved.
The Translation. That the Catholick Faith shal be eclipsed and fall, and that the Crown and all the Cities, Castles and Towns shal be conquered.
A prophesie of the Bergam, setting out the beginning of great warrs, the d [...]vision of Armies, the death and confining of the late King, and of d [...]liverance by the B [...]ittish Conquerour.
Pau gauer kirn, kynwr ymchissyrdd, gwae gweled gwraig diosnawg, ym wvdd ymphirtl girth gythrwfwl, a gwidd il mal kwiaid h [...]aid dvarydwl, ar amrawd ymchau gweiddi, ymberi yn deirchau digwyl ar lwybyn, a llawer llwybyr arvor llydon, ag or tri niv r ner y neidian.
- [Page 108]1. Ʋn ddehevbath gyfarth gyfan.
- 2. Ar ail ir Berfedawlad or wlad erwan
- 3. Ar drydidd i Englond argladd gwynfau.
Ag fal drvdwy drvd ymladdan, saeson nevr orfod yngod, ag yman kymrv anhvnawg chwanawg i kyfrau, Paboth a gersi an, ne anghysan, oni so marwy Tarw Torvoedd llydan, ynhwr gostynger, a hedd meddir gyfau, Erddwch Pryderwch a Ghynhevwch dau, a gweddrioch ddw yn ddysal, y gwrach gwyr ach gweryd etto, daw llew llaw Owain darogan pob traha taeithid dvw i hvnan.
The Translation. When the Trumpet is blown, then will be uproar in the high-wayes, wo be unto the innocent women, or such who want policy to escape the fury, unruly actions and distractions in the gates and entrances by sudden and furious approach, then the Irish wil be like Ducks crossing of boggs, and crying ou [...], Brother Branach help.
The warlick Army will be d [...]vided into three parts, the paths wil keep h [...]ly-dayes, or without concourse of travellers, and then will be many pathes on the sea, and the three Armies will leap.
- 1. One with an eager and sharp bark to South-Wales;
- 2. The other to Denbighshire and the bottoms;
The third to England, which wil produce death, slaughter, and great mourning, and like steers will be their dear and bloody sights: the English will make hard confl [...]cts, Wales will be restless and apt to share or divide.
But it is to no purpose for them to seek peace or truce, till the death of a Bull with large territories, and owner of great multitudes, who will be confined in a strong Prison, and brought low, and afterwards will plenty of peace be obtained, then fall to your prayers, tillage and husbandry, and serve God constantly, giving him the only land and praise; for he that knoweth your sufferings, will yet send you deliverance; for the heavy head of the Lyon, which is Owen the prophesied Conquerour, [Page 109] he shal deliver you from your all your miseries, as God himself hath appointed.
A prophesie of Adda fras, a Prophet and a Poet, as you are told already, wherein is fore-told the late Warrs, with a conquering of forrain enemies.
Diargel Rhyfel am ddwylan konwy, ar kyuwr a ddaw i gaer deganwy, a llynrges ar des ar draws mowedwy, a llwrwf a llawn, hmyl chwyl Rhywelwyf, Ped war kernt a devkin a Pher dair, a mil mwy, gida thrigain, llynged kaui, kylhwy yw dvw kyfarfod a wnan, a lloegir or diwedd a dawaw ynboeth a [...] ardal gowarth yn die gysan, i Owain ben draig bier darogou, yn wir gwe biefydd tir Terfynav kynnan.
The Translation. Fierce warres is pred [...]cted to the borders of both sides of the river of Conway, tumult and uproar to Townes, and a Navy in summer time will cross both seas, then violent sailings, hasty preparations and continual stormes. When the year 1664 comes about, a Navie will be in a readiness to be sent, God is true in his promise, then at last the said Navie will saile from England, then England will be entirely assigned to Owen, the head Dragon, unto whom belongs the predictions. And verily he is the onely man that will own and possess the ancient Rights and Liberties of Kynan.
A prophesie of Adda fras, fore-telling of warres, of short trouble to the Brittish Conquerour of the race of Owen ap Cadwgau, of the starting up of Sects and Sectaries to trouble the Church, but at last Sectaries and Plotters shall vanish.
Disgogan awen ffwn ffawydd gvl blaen blodev, byd a flonvdd, kad ymhowys, koed a gyrchant, ag yn y kad lliaws a ddywedin, l [...]vdd yn lloegrwys llydan froedd, ag a awy boloch och a fvdd, Pendefig Powys ar hydd, Pawbai kyfarth gwarth a ddiffidd, [Page 110] mi wn i daw [...]r naw n [...]v nydd, Esgor i lvdd d Pennaeth fydd, a lerth malhelin [...] hydd diav yn i fro frei [...]iog [...]eb ffydd, G [...]erin yn yn crm [...]s Pres y [...] ynydd.
The Transl. I will search a prophesie, so freely as out of cup: at the breaking out of blossoms, a troubles [...]m time, an A [...]my in Powis, which will betake them [...]l [...]es to the woods; and in the woods many will say, that th [...]re is great sl [...]ughter in England, with their broad and larg [...] border. An houre of trouble will be to the Stagg and the worthy own [...]r of Powis, who shall be respected and ho [...]oured of all, whose dishonour shall vanish; and I know he w [...]ll c [...]me of the nineth Ancester, he shall reco [...]er his troubles and we [...]isome course of war- [...]are, and b [...]come chief or head Ruler, and he shall be as a nimble Stagg, but his kingly Countrey will be one day without the true Faith, and some people will be seditious and troublesome.
A prophesie of Merlin Silvestris, setting forth the late Warr; the Lyon and Dragon from Wales, with future peace.
Darogan Merdlin Panaeth drevin, ar bawl egorvd y bv i dynged Mal Rbod yn troi.
Tra maith hwilie, tra [...]lawd maith, tra chymell trothe, traws ofyn dr [...]ig mynwyn yn mynv trin, ynghyech a Phyerh am borthva [...]v gw [...]nwyn gyn rhioin gaurhiav, At [...]aw ffrac [...]h y devant ddifiav, ag am gwyn Rhiaui Rhy felvedd afydd a d [...]ffaeth elfydd, [...]ll myn heb Allvkir rhv, gwynfyd Gwenddyed or gwavio o wander sais ai hinseliav, ai llwgwr maith ar i kysrwithlav a llaeihir yn briddwn, brad hob chiav, a gwaith F [...]aink Aissrawd ar longav, a gwaith dovyr yn ddibyrys Angav, Ecosed oes fawr a Giglew gelwyf a d far Bleiddi [...] drai [...] dywyll, Towyll a gole, an choddoyn chvdd, Adnevrau o wledd, oesawled h [...]b [...]isiav.
The Translation▪ Merthin towards his latter daies, and [Page 111] while his b [...]east laid on a sharp stake, turning thereon like a wheel, said, That sayles shall ride afarr way, that troubles will be of long continuance, that Texa [...]i [...]ns shall be imposed, and that the whi [...]e D [...]agon wi [...]l wrongfully se [...]k to rule and ord [...]r, shrewd tugging and poysonous bemo [...]ni [...]g in and abouts the ha [...]b [...]urs, and also m [...]ch slaughter to them which shall side with the woman, on a Thur [...]day.
And warrs shall be in behalf of the woman, a sorry and false Coun [...]rey, the Germans failing, not daring to appear; happy and glad is Gwendelina of their miserie, and of the failings and weakness of the Engl [...]sh, and also for breaking and renewing of their Lawes, and for the sorrow and heaviness of England; treachery without number will they attempt, and the work at Dover will be without feeling or account of death, but a wonderous, a good and fierce L [...]on will destroy the Wolves; a d [...]rk Dragon, yea, dark and clear, will set us at libertie, and feast us with feasts for ages without want or end.
A prophesie of Merlin Ambrose, predicting the com [...]ng of an E [...]gle of the B [...]it [...]ish race in a certain ag [...], and this Eagle he calls the prophesied Corquerour, or fiery D [...]agon of invincible strength, in whose time will be great slaughter.
Eryr, a Gyfvd, bryd ymmrithon, draig darogan tau yng [...] wnfan, ef a ddaw kadarn fal haiarn er saru a vfnon trymiad mal i gwelon, ef a dra digwydd or gwydd gwnion, ef a ddwg i gr [...]d y gwydion, ag yna i gw [...]lir ar y t [...]r tirr [...]on, meibion ymddisa [...]d, a gwragedd heb a gerain.
The Translation. Tha [...] an Eagle shall arise at a certain time from the race of the Brittains, & this will be the prophesied fiery Dragon, which will be an instrument of loss, and this will come with invincible strength as strong as iron to the Judgment, who will terrifie his fugitive enemies when he app [...]ars; he shall h [...]avily fall in from the white Roses, hee shall bring Infidelss to believe, [Page 112] and in his time will be seen on the land fatherless children, and women without their husbands.
A prophesie of Merlin Ambrose, by way of questions, wherein is set out a Conquerour, of the late warrs punctually and exactly fore-told, and of a peaceable time that shall follow.
Qu. Mi Athofynaf Merddin Emris, Pawr a orfydd, Pa d e a geysid, Pa fyd a dowys Marchog na farthog Rhieiddiog yn llys a dyer, ar hya Gwynedd Gwyndodydd, lvav d [...]hedd, dyhvnaut, arseiddiant gadav kadarnsal haparn barn pwy orav, Pau fo brwydyr am gyfrwng a than golav, Gwae offeiriad llau, gwae agol o i ran or hin gorav, gwae gadarn enwir, gwae ef Aughyfiawn engil, gwae ddigassog Arglwydd ai werin hylwydd or hil orav, diav yar ddyhor kyngor kyng vav, gwae a ddotto i fryd ar frad golav, Gwyn blaen blod av, krin kaugav gwydd, kethin llwn, gegawn mynydd, llym gwaiw, gwae nis arhovdd, dalhalmal a mynych lvydd, dadkvdd Llew or llin yr gallvt dythrin, byd bod heb benne, darogan y daw rhag llaw, llai fydd y trethav, a thwyllwyr bradwyr ymrad yw rbiaw, rhiav a thwyll, yn ymarser ni wybyddie karait e chwant chwedlav, k [...]foaaut, kieiddiaut, Pawb a ddaw mawr vddi Pridder, difiav ebolydd heb vedd av, ag yn i hous y kyvd kadav, ag y bydd gwynfyd worth y byd gorav, a ffobl ddrvd o vcher Ammav, gwedi gor modder gorwyn chiav, gwnewch a archaf a erchais mathv, na fyddwch an y hvn, bob vn bod dav, na wn wch gam gyfraith, na wnewch chewedlau, narowch ychenaid ymhylaid kassav.
The Translation. I will demand of Merlin Ambrose, what manner of man will the Conquerour b [...], what lands will hee conquer, what kinde of world will a Knight and no Knight lead? A person possessed with too much Jealousie will dissent in a broken Counsel, then A [...]mies will cross fair North-Wales to and fro, where much effusion of blood will be made, which will make North-Wales rouze them, to put themselvs in posture [Page 113] of defence to with stand the enemie, and their Army wil be as strong as iron; and then wil be a great question, which of either party wil carry the Conquest, and then when distraction be for the mid-land with open fire or warr, wo be unto Ministers of Churches, who be unto their which shall loose the best share, wo be unto the strong and false, wo be unto the unjust English, wo be unto the odious and chief Lord, which shal loose his gallant men of the best rank, for one day will make a separation between him and his Council; wo be unto him that wil hatch open treachery, when blossoms break out, and when boughs be brittle, and dangerous walking amongst shrubs, and scandalous travelling of moun [...]ains, and when Pikes be sharp, then wo be unto the fugitive, and when they fall to bickering, with pursute and flying, with shewing of Armies and little fighting, a Lion wil start up and be discovered, and this will be of a race that might put them in fear and terrour, and hee shall cause men to want their heads; and I do prophesie that he shall come, a [...]d t [...]at heavy taxations shall be lessened, and that the false and [...]r [...]acherous shall study nothing but manifold treachery, and these shall make a common practice of such treacherous plots till they be destroyed, and they shall love and covet news of lies and inventions; and after such plots they wil rise in armes, grow cruel, all shal be enj [...]yned, but great wil their sorrow be on a Thursday, but by and by without graves; and while these plotters live, wil armies be in a readiness to suppress and destroy them, and then wil be a good world next unto a better, and diffident people shal rue their incredulity; and after a sufficient warr wil follow manifold blessings and good dayes; and then let them do as I bid, viz. let them fall to their coynings, and let them not be divided by one and two; let them m [...]ke no exact no unjust Lawes; let them not suggest lies and fancies, neither let them be heartless, nor firm with the odious party.
Taliesins Creed in another way out of another book.
Krist Jessv ke i ti y koiliaf, dy fod yn dri ag yn vn ag iawn gviliaf, [...]awn dy alwd [...] yn fab plant Addaf, Jawn dy Alw yn ysl yd fymwyd naf, Jawn dy Alw yn greawdwr Emmerawdwr Penaf, Jawn dyalw yn wir ddin ag yn wir ddvw gorvwchaf, it helpv kymrvhif y dywedaf, Ti agysodaist i fiw o sedd dai arfa, Ti a ddygi r kymrv a k [...]m ddausan yna, Ti a himpiyn y gerdd [...] gynawon Troya, fe ddaw Brithon yn llawn ky [...]rwysrda, yna i diwreiddir kyffion for mania, ag ir ynill [...]r Tyrnas Brittania, Maranedd gwledd gamber a ganaut haleluiah, Na Bardd na di furdd eythr dvw dofvdd, Ne serddin, ne gywaid o gader sidin, or hav [...] i ddaiar, o dowyn hid er chydd, ondmi Taliesin nid oes gyfarwyddni.
The Translation. Christ Jesus, in thee w [...]ll I believe, who art three, and yet but one according to my right beliefe; worthy art thou to be called a son of the children of Adam; worthy art thou call [...]d a spirit, which art my Lord and life; worthy art thou called a Creator and head Emperour, worthy art thou called perfect Man and perfect God the highest; worthy mayest thou help the Brittains, with boldness I speak it; thou hast risen from thy earthly grave, wh [...]re thou hast been laid; thou wilt (in thy appointed time) exalt the Brittains from their trembling conditions; and thou wilt engraft the Trojan race in the rich garders; yea, the Brittains (yet) will becom a politick N [...]tion. Then the great Oaks of the Germane race shall be rooted up, and the kingdom of Brittain shall be conquered; then the dark and mystical feast of the race of Kamber shall sing haleluiah; neither Bardh or Poet, nor Merlin, nor any which shall arise from the chair of Sidin, nor any else from the solary element to the terrestrial orb, nor from darkness to light, hath perfect knowledg, but God the chief Conquerour.
Here you may observe, That the Angel delivers his Confession of the sacred Trinity in Ʋnity, in a most reverend manner of speech.
[Page 115] Then hee proce [...]ds with a prophesie of what shall befall to Great Brittain, wherein is to be noted his humility and reverence attributed to the blessed Trinity, saying, With boldnesse I speak let such and such happiness and restauration come to pass; where in the rest of his prophesies de [...]ivered in way of discourse with men, he saith peremptorily, Such and such thi [...]gs shall come to pass.
And whereas he saith, that the Brittains will become a politick Nation, he altogether in this and the rest of his prophesie alludes to their politick perseverance in the service of th [...] true God, and that they (or the Inhabitants of Brittain) will be the first and chief politick Instruments to reform the Church of God amongst themselves first, then among [...]t the dissenting Christians and Jewes, according to the platform doctrine and original pu [...]ity of Christ and his Apostles.
Then, to dash the arrogancy of man, he saith, That the perfect gift of prophesie proceeds only from God the fountain, and that the gift lieth not in the power of Merlin, Angels nor Mortals within the circle of the Sphere, but only in himself, or such that receive it from above.
A Revelation of Gro [...]wddv of Angl [...]sey, wherein an Angel revealed unto him the kingly succession in the regal Government, until the coming of the Brittish Conquerour, who is clearly set out, and that the said Conquerour should appear 222 years after the same revelation, or in the year 1642.
1, Qu. Pa brid fydd hynny,
An. Pau ddell llynges ir werddon a dav Amrafael ddynion, kymrv di eiddilon, a ddaw yn wyr i ynyll tir brithon, yna i dywaid y de winion gwyn [...]fyd brithon, a gwaer saeson.
2. Qu. Pa brid fydd hyny,
An. Pau dd [...]l aneirif o rif i cyfeddv ar glawr tair gwawe trin kymro taliethwg freinog frenin, y ynwy ai gariad ymysg i wtrin, llydan i gledd Pell i derfin, Gwenwyn awg llidiawg yn llad i elyn.
4. Qu. Pa brid fydd hyny.
5. Qu. Pa brid sydd hyny.
An. Pau fo gy gwalkog agwragedd kribog ar meibion yn yf kellog, ag ysgaln seigie, ag [...]ssara bev nvdd, a chetddawr gwaglav, a diffarth fynwentoedd a diffig ar y deiled, a chwymp. ar y delwav, ar Bryniav yn gostwng, ar tommenid yn kod, abrith fyd ky flown drift, achwgi r avr, a chl-fyd ar racian, a bradog kybillach, a Marsolaeth heb gwyn, a d drvdaineth heb eisle.
The Translation. Said the Angel in this Revelation to Gro [...]wddv,
It will come to pass, that a person will start up to put a period to the fugitive enemie, who will be a man with a broad sword, of a noble descent, and which will joyn in feasting and familiarity with his own.
And he will come to subdue the height of the English enemie, and will also disperse them by hundreds and multitudes, to a forlorn condition.
1. Qu. Said Gronwddv, when will that come to passe?
An. When a Navy comes to Ireland with two several dissenting Nations; Brittaines then (casting off their weaknesse) will conquer the land of Brittain; then will Beirdhs say, Happy are the Brittains, and wo to the English enemie.
2. Q. When will that be?
An. When a liberal person of the race of Llewelin comes from his Countrey with purpose to overcome, having his Banner of red and yellow, he shall possesse the territories and extents of Kynvyn.
3. Q When will that be?
An. When a marvellous great number will be forth-coming, and divided in three several battalioes at the command of an heroical Spirit, which will be a Princ [...]ly Brittain, and a King of Kingdomes, surpassing all in the love and obedience of his Army, of a bro [...]d sword and farr extents, who shall run furiously to destroy his enemie.
4. When will that be?
An. When England be in a terrible fear, and before an Army a shower of cloudy and cold frost, then will come to England fire from either side, and some of themselves, or from their own bosomes, betraying them.
5. Q. When will that be?
An. When men wear locks, and women with dressings like wings about their eares, and curled hair, the lads with flying wings, slight dishes, and daily in armes, musitians without reward, and of empty hands, Church-yards vil fied, Tenants in distresse, and when Crosses and Images fall, when the hills descend and hillocks ascend, then will be a sorry world of sullennesse and heavinesse, gold hanged and silver buried, fellowship deceitfull and treacherous, death without moan, and dearth without want.
A prophesis of Taliesin, exhorting all to confide in Jesus for help; then proceeds to foretell of the Dragon of the race of Blethin ap Cyinvin, and of his warlike actions.
The Translation.
Let us make our confession to the blessed and rich Trinity, who is riches it self, a warm supporter and ruler of ages, wherein the righteous works of Jesus are abundantly manif [...]sted unto the sons of men without want; unto whom we should preferr our humble petitions, and blow every Thursday a Trumpe [...], least we be terrified with the nois of the Lords Trumpet that certainly shall sound, let sinners quake and tremble for their sins present and past.
A Nation have denied the confession of their manifold sins committed like streams of Rivers; and [...]his they have done for the terrour of their deserved punishment; nay, they will deny the making bare of inn [...]cent children, least the terrour of judgment should dishearten them.
Let the pure soules lovingly enj [...]y the cities, and let them prosper which singeth out the prosperity of cities, and walles, which shall enjoy misery, heaviness and payment of Taxations, wo and misery will fall unto them when warrs and revenge will come amongst them, wo and misery unto them when a D [...]agon from Powis appears amongst them, whose warlike actions will produce streames of [...]list [...]ring blood from his enemies, miserie when the Ravens of North W [...]l [...]s will begin their slaughtered feast, miserie when the worthy Bear from the borders of the South will appear, and when men are fetcht to separate a predicted kinsman from his own; miserie to the active English after their losse of a kingdom, misery for merciless excuses, misery to Cornw [...]ll when it shall hear of their wrongful doings, where blades of swords sh [...]ll hack and hew for their sins; misery wh [...]n man [...]f [...]ld and cruel bloody streams shall run, and when feet and legs shall [...]e wanting, misery shall fall from the violent heat of Armies; and let all these miseries and slaughter prove advantagious to the Brittains; miserie to an English, confined, after his wrongful proceedings, and then a she-Gyant will be without gaine; and before the end of the plague a parish will be wanting, and the aged from Maelor by such a time w [...]ll g [...]t the [Page 120] best conquest, and the bruised Germanes shall lament their miserable loss [...], with bloody stro [...]ks about their ribs in remembrance of their oppression, in oppressing a man paternally from the Brittains, the oppressors of Brittain with their ravening clawes turned of.
Then shall be tumults and insurrections after slaughters, but the impotent shall afte [...]wards be suppressed with violence, to prevent their plottings and insurrections.
He that shal discover these miseries to great Brittain, shal be counted a Teacher of teachers, and the wise teacher of heaven guide and blesse him with pe [...]ce; his innocent work will be of the nature of spiritual godly souls, and l [...]t the Lord God relieve his wants and plead for him, and such shal understand the gift of his knowledge, and I wil deliver with praise that his knowledge may never fail him him.
A prophesie of the Bergam beginning with exhortations to observe prophesies, promising a Conquerour under the name of Owen of the Bri [...]tish race, and of the late Kings death.
Ni ery neb n [...] gohebydd, Merich garhirion, ar gwyr tobyr twion, ar bwyill eilon pen boned kylauedd kvlion, Gwae sais oi drais deahon, Gwir ddvw gwyr ar dylon, mal blaen kawn yn kwynaw yr llawe pau ddother gawr yngrawydd arson peayt yn gryt a phyt marchogion, gwyr O [...]ain goralwon, gwaet dres draet gwedi drvd ymladdon, wynt bievdd dydd or diweddon, ag a yr or phasev Rhig as rhigolion.
The Translation. Let the declaring and publishing of these predictions be kindely accepted from the Publisher; there wil [Page 121] come a thriving and prosperous person, who shal nimbly start up like the fire from lightening, then the Brittains wil be inveigl [...]d to take arms and to match a farr distance from their abode, which shal keep them awake for a week and three nights, then wil the Stagg have three armies upon the borders of seas to chase and pursue his enemies with a loud out-cry; God wil not assault any, but such that shal resist him, who shal have nimble and stout horses and couragious men with sharp axes; and this Stagg wil be of the best royal race by discent, who wil make a g [...]eat sl [...]ughter of the flying and fugitive enemie, then wo be to a fraudulent English; the true God knoweth their defects; th [...]y shal be scattered away with the winde like chaff, when a great and strong man shal be put down by a river side, from thence forwards w [...]l their m [...]aning be remediless, and their gallant Knig [...]ts lying in cold earth; and after their dear fighting and bloody slaughter, the couragious men of Owen wil get the conquest and the glory of the day, and shal drive away from the Palaces and Castl [...]s the odious to swim.
A prophesie of Merlin Silvestris, but cited by Addafras, wherein is set out terrible threatnings against the late Royal party; also of a Conquerour of the race of Cynvin.
Y Meibion moel on a fydd altid on, ir garth yn grwn yn hwr y saeson, mawr fyd [...] i chyddit, Pau gaffant gau ddvw ddial i llvd Geiri [...]v a glowant, hwyntai de hallan [...], trwm fydd i dial p [...]u i talwynt.
T [...]li ithawg Owain dan arfav llisain, gore vn [...]ab gau d [...]vw, wy [...] ith ddamwain, ha [...] lawn hvl (ynvin hwiliant yn Tervin, in [...] rhaid vn gevyn er i g [...]fid, llveddawg fyddant, [...]e a or [...]sk [...] n ut, ar loeg [...]r wys diroedd y T [...]rsy [...]ut, darogan Merddin pau a ethar dersin, ar b [...]wl egored y bv i dy [...]g [...]d.
The Translation. The bare and plumed L [...]ds shal be made impotent, and pend up in heaps in the Engl [...]sh towers; great wil their sway be, when Gods heavy wrath and ind [...]gnation [Page 122] falls upon them; words shal come amongst them, which wil be understood, but great wil their punishment be when it comes.
For Owen of a Princely race with his sharp arms, which is the most beloved of the son of God to be predicted of, and he shal be of the race and lineal descent of Cynvin, and shal sail forth to publick view in the end or appointed time; we need not look to their troubles, for they wil be possessed of mighty strong armies, and wil conquer places; they shal have ful power to dispose of the Countrey of England: and this is the prophesis of Merlin Silvestris in his latter dayes, when his naked breast laid on a sharp stake.
The Reader may do well to take especial notice how the Prophet delivereth his minde in the plural number, and saith, That they of the race of Cynvin shall sail forth, their trouble, they will be possessed, they will conquer places, they shall have ful power to dispose of the Countrey of England: part of this is alledged in the verdict of the fourth Jur. fol. 35.
A prophesie of Addafras, wherein is fore-told our late Warrs, the frowning Parliament, and a Conquest by a person descending from the Prince North-Wales.
The Translation.
I wil predict a violent winde that shal for a short space molest a Northern person, who shal come with invinc [...]ble strength and mighty tempest; when this kinde person comes to plough North-Wales, the Scepter shal be disturbed with commotions, and a Council d [...]sturbed likewise with frowning Members; then a triumphant Army wil be seen, which wil produce honour after a long suffering; at first there shal be disturbance and bickerings which wil annoy Musitians, and the lawful and hopeful care of the Prince of North-Wal [...]s.
Here followeth a prophetical Discourse which past between Taliesin and Merl [...]n.
Mor drvau gennyf, mor drvan Adderyw am gedwiw a Chadfau oedd llachar kyflofar kyfle fanoedd yfygw [...]d odref rhwyd odryfaus.
Oedd maelgwyn awelwn yn ymwau i devlv r hag tory fli in chatfau.
Rhag devwr yni Twr y Tyrrau rhag errich a gwrth yar welygau meinwinev yn ddiev a ddygan, Mor Weler y niser g [...]u elgau, orh oi leith mawr a derth y devthau.
Rhvs vndaut oedd rhyrhwant y Tarrian hid atfady ddaeth rhad gyflafau, llas kyndwr, kyndar [...]ra messvr y kwynau, llas haylon a dynion tra fvau, trowyr nod usawr ev klod gan Elgan.
Trwy a thowy Rhwy arwy y doythau, Traw a thraw ym doeth braw am Elgan, lladd dysel oi diwedd kyfflosau, f [...]b Erbin ai werin a wnevthan.
Llv Maegwyn bvyfgwn y garthau oyr wyr kad trymlen dyed gwaethan, n [...]vwaith a ryf deydd pau fvdd y desnydd o hydd yvrhit darparau.
Lliaws Peleidrad gwaed sadd gwaed lau lliaws ayrwyr briw brevawl vydiau, lliaws baner briwer lliaws baner ffos, lliaws ev hymchwel yni hymwau.
Seith meib Elifer, seith wyr pau brafer, seith waywin ochel yn ev seith ran.
Seith dau fv [...]lin seith gad gyferbin, seithfed kynselin ymhob kynwau.
Seith gwaiw genawon seith loned ars [...]n o waed kyurennyon y d lanwan.
Seith vgein haylon a aethant yn y gwyllon yn ghoed kelyddon y darfvant, kanis in forddin wedi Taliesin bydd ed kyffred in fy rarogan, ag folly y diw [...]dd y kinv brith r hwng Merthin a Thaliesin.
A Chronologie and prophesie of Merlin Silvestris, wherein is fore-told several Conquests and changes in the Regal Government of Great Brittain since the Norman Conquest till this very time; as also the successful Acts of his HIGHNESS that now rules, who is fore-told to conquer and b [...]r rule both in Brittain and elswhere.
Y Gwr a lefoyr yn y bedd, disgwyct kyn seith my kyned March Marw Avr deyrn Gogledd yr yseys wyro Gawg gan rhiev Rhyfel eglag, Merddin fy henw am heyddug yr eseys win o wydyr Gwin i gan Rhiev Rhyfel, dygyn Merddin fy henw fab M [...]rfryn.
1. Pau ddel Gwr gwrthrin yar olwyn dv i ladd lloegir, llwybyr wehyn, chwer wgwen wyn, yn am mwyn Gwyn fryn, Gwyn fryn eyssydd in erhy eyr nevedd kymry, in bydd diogel awr yng hellawr Ardvdwy, ar Adal hwy kymry rhag ardderchawg Twrch tvryf hy.
2. Pau ddyfo coch Normandi I holi lloegrwys travl ddi ffwys, Traethefi bob darogan dy derby, Castellyn Aberhodin.
3. Pau ddyfo y brith cadarn hid yn rhvd Pen, karn, llifant Gwyr trevlant karn Pendefig Prydain Pen barn.
4. Pau ddyfo Henry 1. hoh mvr kastell y Ryri, garlao r gormes tra gw [...]ili.
5. Pau ddyfo y Gwyn gwan i holi llvn lain Jar feirch nid kain, ni cheidw Tyrnas kaer gain Ten [...]v y mes Tew r yd.
6. Pau ddyfo yn dd [...]ssyfyd Brenni gwas, gwae ai kr [...]d, mab a fydd, mawr i vrddas a oreskyn mil dynas, hoy dyl egin Brenni gwas, kadarnwrthwna wau gwlad Adfot gwau gwau gwau, wrth gadarn gordyr [...]t pen naeth handes, gwaeth i ddys [...]t.
Then Merlin proceeds with manifest notions of notable passages of what shall follow from the time he lived till the present and hereafter.
Byd a fydd bryd wrthfowr des byddant, gwragend heynt llaeth bvches byddant llv meibion ein ev kyffes.
Byd a fydd yn gorffen oed Jesemr rhag a doet, may marw kogev rhag Anwyt.
Byd a fydd bryd wrth errhwys ydd adeihawr yn dyrys, heb weoth mawr in chaffawr kryt.
Byd a fydd bryd wrth lyev lyw mall a gwall ar lannev torrethwr gair, a chrieriev dyfau fawa llechant gev gwan ffydd, pobaildydd dad ev.
Byd a fydd bryd wrth ddillad, kyhaws Arglwydd mayr chwifiad, difanawy gwyr, llechant gwad, gwaglaw Bardd, hardd effeiriad.
Byd a fydd heb wynt heb law, heb ormodd o eredig, heb tra thr [...]iliaw, Tyr digon, vn Erw i naw.
Pau ddyser gwyr hebwrhyt, ag yn lle r koed r vd, ym heb hedd gwledd a gyfyd.
Pau fo kyfel [...]n kymyrhedd, y gwr ae gweryt in ommedd, gwrthfyd yd y myny ddoedd.
Pau fydd ynsyrh gwydd, gwanwyn a fydd gwedi i Pen aeth gwen wyn byddant gwaeth bvddelw norhrywyn, dvw mercher dydd ky orffon y trevlawr llafynawr ar pen kwyddant tev yn Crev kynnen ir Aber sor yt fydd garw gyngor ar gwyr gwedy Trevlhettor, glv vw gwynllyw yn vn eskor yn Aber Avon y bydd llymion Engyl gwedy hyn fyddon, hyr gwerydar derhyt vord on, yn Aber dwyr nwy dvg a fv a gnoho gwedys, a gwedy kad kyffaa blvg, a chad a fv ar Bythy Auon, a Brithon dygorpy, gwnaut gwyr gwhyr grwhydry yn Aber perydd [...]n pe [...]yttor kad a phelyd yr ag hymmon, a gwed rhvdd saeson gwassawg, aywit ti i wwen ddydd wenddydd am dy wawd y Gwyllon mynydd yn Aberkrafnaut krefydd, a gwedy kyrn kloer a fydd, a mi ddisgoganaf ereill kyrn a llefkwn, Peu [...]il frvr dyphla yghoet y peyll [Page 127] Gwenddydd gwrandaw yn ddiev yn y ddaw Teisi o lynnev a adoer yw fy er dyrn.
Mi ddisgog anaf messyrn ar deyfi, a llef kloer wedy kyrn Pau dyffo Gwynedd yn oyean ev bryt yn pssran yskythrawr, churrio gyfnod clod y garaewr, karrawr yn yr comyned kymyn lli kymyn lleedd llithiant kwn ar galamedd karrawr ynyr garw Annwyt y Bryt garw eskyll yn y mry, llihiant brain ar ysperi.
Disgog [...]n tyd orh terydd dy rbag karrawg kynaw dydd Gwynfyd am Ryd fawy llrn, disgogan Tydoch terydd dy yn Aber milhwr, byddant Teyfi a fo trwch, disgogan Teyfi llestri lli ar llyry a B [...]ythwyr oe thorri llan dydoch mynechi.
Disgogan dyfet Arglwydd Jaw di Brythwyr dvo fanaw, Tydach llan trwm dydd addaw, disgoganaf, i llaan dydoch na b [...]dd na chlorh namyn gwrwyfa gwydd forch, Pen Trevlho Prydein Teyr nedd bychegn gwled feibvn yn gwerin or mes, in wyr namyer dawn Argen h [...]fynt yn y ddol gwynt ar tes.
A prophetical Chronologie of Merlin Silvestris, by way of Questions and Answers between Merlin and his sister Gwendolina, wherein is laid out most of the Kings successively that should raigne in great Brittain from the time wherein he lived, till the time of the coming of the Brittish Conquerour, and that such and his race shall imperially raigne for ever, both in great Brittain and elsewhere; but in respect of the tediousness of it, I b [...]gan at Queen Elisabeth.
Qu. Cyfarchef im ehelaeth frawd a welais yn fedd saeth, Pwy wledich o ddiynaeth.
An. Pau dyfo dylad dylied, vchaf owawr hyd ddiwedd Rhiain, or phen byd.
Qu. Cyfarchaf ym ehelaeth frawd etriw. Ne gwedi dylad dylied vrbaf, pwy fvt Adref nawr, a fi llawn Afynaf: a Ran periglawr.
An. Na Ran na Periglawr, na cherddawr ni bit, nag ackitwedid allan eny digwyd vch yr llawr.
Qu. Lla allawg, cau am Attebit Merddin fab Morfrin gelvydd, trv o chwedl a dywedit.
An. As dywedas i wenddydd, Canis dwys ym kyferth it, dylad diwedd chiain fydd.
Qu. Kyfarchaf ym ehelaeth frawd, a welais i yn fedd faeth, pwy a wledych o ddrynaeth.
An. Rhydywedais it hin, i wenddydd waesaf vnbin dy derbit gymeint di mynn. Lloallawg ym dyderbit, nof yr eneid dy frodyr.
Qu. Pa bennaeth ynaeth a sydd. &c.
An. Gwenddydd wen pen mynegi, as dywed af yn ddif ri, na bydd Pennaeth byth gwedi.
Qu. Och Anwyl or o [...]r yfgar gwedi dysed yn drydar gau vnbin dewr di archar, divlo di o dau daear.
[Page 129] An. Gwasgarawg awel Amwyr, Pwyll drvd a dwyll Pegredir gadaifi fard hyd frawd yr dir.
Qu. Oth le as dyfeddfaeth ney e ym dy Amvnaeth hoed dyadoed Pan dyngir k [...]od vrno, pwy draet tho gwir.
An. Olochvyd cyfod a theasod llyfrev, a gwen heb ar swyd a a chwedl bvn a lwn brevddwyd.
Qu. Marw morgenav, Marw kywrenlim Morial Marw Morien Mvr trin, trymaf hoed i m [...] dy adoed di ferddin.
An. Digones dofyt digwet Arnaf Marw Morgenav, Ma [...]w Mordaf, Marw Morien Mawr Agaraf.
Qu. Fy vn hrawd nv chwdrit ar naf, er gwaith arderydd wyf glaf i ddvwith orch mynaf.
An. Ath orchmynaf dithe i Ben y kreadiriav Gwenddydd wen Adlam kerddev.
Qu. Y kerddev a drigasant, odyfod klod bedrvant och ddvw mor ymg y devant.
An. Gwenddydd na fydd Anhalar never cheddet i llwyth daear i diowrit obawb a gar, im byw nith ddioferaf hyd frawd, ith gaffai dy fossawd tromaf, Eskat gorwydd her wydd gwynt amlon ar dev vyrdvl hynt it, af yn il a aethant.
Qu. Gorchmynaf y [...]irivo frawd [...]r Rhiev Rhwy gorev, kymin kyn Angev.
An. Nichymeraf gymyn gau y kymin feneich ag av Trvygen ar i klvn, am kymvno dvw i hvn.
Qu. Gorchmynaf fy eirioes frawd yn y Gaer werthevyn Gogledd dvw ferddin.
An. Gorchmynaf fy eiroes chwaer yn y Gaer ni wesgerit Gogledd dvw o wenddydd.
The Translation.
Qu. Gw [...]ndolin faluting her brother Merlin, demanded who should reign after such, as by the rest of this prophesie is expressed?
An. When the wages of the dull people comes to be paid, which will come to passe after the reign of a Virgin, then an end is at hand.
Qu. I demand of my kinde and wife Brother, after the wages of the dull people comes to be paid, who will be ordained to rule? I will ye [...] fully demand, will Church-men share?
An. Church-men will not share, neither will Beirdhes, Poets and Harpers be in esteem; but I will not have thee openly to publish, that there shall be an Oxe born, which shall fall to the ground.
Qu. Liberal Merlin the son of Morvrin, be pleased to yield me an answer to three questions.
An. I will resolve Gwendolina, who art very importunate with mee for thy request; the wages will be paid, when a virgin Queen it come and gone.
Qu. I will demand of my kinde and wise Brother, who will reign aft [...]r that?
An. Thou foolish and naughty Gwend lina, I have told thee already, and yet thou are endless in thy proposals, A powerfull and mighty Army will come with a strong hand, who shall bear rule and continue, and then Paradise to thy brethren the Brittaine [...].
Qu. What kinde of Ruler will be then?
An. Fair Gwendolina, I do shew and tell thee in sobriety, That there shall be no other Ruler for ever after.
Qu. Wo is one my dear, of such cold separation, and to be deprived of a valiant and couragious brother, and of his kinde discourse, when thou art put to banishment under earth.
An. An impatient storm shall make separation of men, which will prove a dear bargain, and a sore plague to the strong, [Page 131] but let us betake our selves away till the judgment day under ground.
Qu. When thy weaknesse failes, or thy life gone, which will be sorrowfull unto mee, then who shall predict and deliver truth after thee?
An. There will arise wo and misery yet after a certain world, with suppressing of books, but Gwendolina will be without feeling of these; so like wise thy Discourse and Revelations for a while, without esteem.
Qu. Morgenav, Kowrenin, Moriab and Morien the Mason all dead; but to be deprived of my kinde brother Merlin will be a losse more sorrowfull to mee then all the rest.
An. The Lord God was displeased with mee, when he took from mee my dear Morgenav, Mordaf and Morien most dear unto mee.
My brother check mee not, notwithstanding my unpleasing humour, for I am very weak and sick; therefore I commend thy body and soul to the Lord God.
And I commend thee likewise to the head of the Creatures; yea, thou faire Gwendolina, which art to leap off from thy Songs.
After thee my brother wages shall fail, laud and praise shall grow to the vile people; but wo, how streight will their conditions be yet?
Gwendolina, be not hopelesse but faithfull, nor sorrowfull, but comfortable; thou that art dust and ashes, take thy farewell from the world, while I live I will not forget thee, I will remember thy tender care and trouble with mee; but now I must be gone away after the race of the sons of men which are gone from hence in peace, and shall be carried away swifter then the race of a horse or blowing of the winde.
I commend my fair and delectable brother to the tuition of the free and best King of Kings. But take thou the Sacrament of our Lord, before thou art surprized by death.
I will not take the sacrament from the hands of the wicked and execrable Monks, with the white vestures, but will confide in the Sacrament of God himself.
I commend my kinde and fair Brother to be interred in the Citie of Gwrthenyn at the North—whom God take to his blessed rest.
I do commend my kinde and fair sister to the tuition of the Citie which shall never be scattered, which is the North Citie or Throne of God.
I desire the faithfull and learned of the Church of England to take especial notice from this discourse, and elswhere in these Collections, of the faithfull and sound Protestant Christians which flourished in this Island of Brittain 1100 years ago; and how detestable the Monks and doctrine of the Church of Rome were unto them; which may be an invincible argument to prove the plantation and rooting of our Church before Luther, against the assertion of the common enemy of Rome.
This was the last prophesie and delivery of Merlin Wyllt or Silvestris, and commonly the words of a dying Prophet were effectual and worthy of credit.
A prophesie of Iohn de Britlington.
Britlington said, That the Saxons should choose them a Lord, that should bring them all under a dead man, which should make a record, and that shall be right much under; hee that dead shall be, and buryed in sight, shall rise again and live in laud.
Through the comfort of a young Knight that fortune shall choose to her husband, the wheel shall turn to him right, That fortune hath chosen to be her fear, in Surrey shall he shew his sight, in Babylon bring many a one bare 15 daies journey from Jerusalem; the holy Crosse winn shall hee; the same Bore shall bear the Beam at Sandyford that wanne the degree; fortune hath granted him the better, sithence first he his armes shall beare, without treason or treachery destinie shall never dare, tell [Page 133] kinde of Age to him draw for which among his worms see; but he shall end in God his Law, in Jehosophat shall hee be buried be.
A piece of a prophesie of an antient Prophet called Evan of Trwch y Darau, wherein is fore-told, that the Eagle and Son of Man shall subdue the Pope, and most part of the world, and also reform the Church and settle peace.
Pen y byd a ddig wydd ir llawr, Mab y dyn ar Ewr o hynny allan a seddian r chau fwaf or byd, yno i bydd tyngnhesedd a ffob daioni ar y ddayar.
The Translation. Saith Evan, The Head of the world shall fall to the ground, who shall be subdued by the Eagle and Son of Man, and these also shall subdue the most part of the world; then shall be peace and tranquilitie upon the earth for ever.
A short prophesie of the same Evan or Iohn.
The Translation. All the bottoms and plain lands shall be trampled, Thieves and Robbers shall be destroy [...]d; then there will be uproar and combustion amongst men upon the earth, and the Inhabitants of the earth will be clipt, and the Userers shall be spoyled of their worldly Mammon.
Then will arise a King from the North, which shall be exalted [Page 134] to honour, and will reduce all to his obedience; and this K [...]ng will be a happy and a prosperous man.
A prophesie of Merlin Silvestris, predicting of warrs and slaughter to the Town of Shrewsbury and the adjacent parts; the fall of Bish [...]ps, as also of an Eagle, Corquerour or Ruler, which sh [...]uld be from Powis by descent, and son of Elisabeth.
The Translation. You fair Damsels stand out of the princely Town of Pengwern, the lawfull Town of a Prince, Kyndylan; wo be unto the young which shall own the borders of the same.
The Translation. One of the Trees of the forrest will arise to bear rule over them, if his first setting or youthfull daies shall not fail; and he shall be as the finger of God in strength, Kyndylan with the [...]rozen heart, a winter will follow.
The Translation. Kyndylan with the dry and burning heart, a mould-warp thorough the chief princely Citie, who will [Page 135] be a stranger with his Arms loaded, will come to defend and secure the visage of a base Town.
The Translation. Church-Bishops shall loose their Hierarchy, and suppressed in England; then the popish Lord of Powys shall go after his fellow-saints.
The Translation. Thou white Citie in the Valley, happy wilt thou be, when thou shalt meet with Armies and valiant men of the Lordly Eagle and Bird of Ely.
The Translation. The same Eagle shall conquer Hills and Dales, with the Territories of his renowned Brethren; yea, this Eagle of Pengwern will be the choise handling weapon of awe and terrour.
A prophesie of Merlin Silvestris set forth in way of discourse with a Prophet which lived in his days, called by the name of Parchell, in English a Pigge; wherein is fore told a Conquest of Brittain, and the fall of Bishops.
Hoean b [...]rchellan mor chyfedd, na byddvn enid y byd yn vn wedd, Pelled son saeson sail kyfr wysdded, ar frith on haylon [...]l kynchwydd, ami ddisgoganaf kyn fynivedd Brithon drvs sae son brithwyr aimedd, ag yna i daw nit ddawn gorfoledd, gwed bod yn hir, yn lwyr frydedd.
The Translation.
Hoean Pigge, how strange it is, nay how unconstant the world is, that it will not continue one minute in the same minde or temper? and how the subtle foundation of the English be farr spread abroad? whose race will Lord it over the liberal Brittains; but I will predict before my end, that Brittains shall over-rule English, and be possessed of Bri [...]tain, and then shall they come to perfect honour after their long bondage.
Hoean Barchellan bydan a fydd, mor drvan i ddyfodag i dyffidd, morwynion moelion gwragedd chiwydd, hieant in ffarchant i karenidd, chwyddin'bydd digyfewd wrth i gilidd, Esgob Anghyfiaeth diffaeth, diffidd.
The Translation.
Hoean Pigge, A little world will come, but behold how miserable will its coming be, and so likewise its vanishing away; bad women and maids will not respect but joyn in love [Page 137] with men near of kin; Nuptial promises will be freely made amongst them, but the Bishops with their strange language and hierarchie shall be extinct.
Hoean Barchellan, n [...]ni daw y kyngid, wrthglowed llais adar mordiargrid, tene gwallt fynhen, syllen nid klyd, golvd fy skubawr i hid, fyngrawn haf fi mingwerid a mi ddisgoganaf kyn diwedd byd, gwraged heb wledd, gwyr heb weryd.
The Translation.
Hoean Pigge, the long expected time will at last come to pass by the noise of Birds, which shall be heard at sea in a sad warlike manner; by such time the hair of my head will be thin, and my skull will become cold; the treasure of my barn is but short, my summer crop of grain cannot save me; but I will predict, that, before the end of times, women shall be without feast and men without graves.
Hoean Barchellan a pharchell chyni, tene yw fy llen, ind llo nyddimi, er gwaith arderydd mi mi darfv, kin fyrthio Awir Allvr enlli.
The Translation.
Hoean Pigge, and a Pigge ready to starve for cold, my skull is but thin, and there is no hopes of rest unto mee, yet all these shall come to passe before the dissolution of heaven and earth.
The Judgment or rather prophesie of learned Brightman, drawn from his compendious and elaborate exposition on the Apocalyps of St John, where hee comments on the 7 Churches of Asia, Typifying Philadelphia to Scotland, and lukewarm Laodicea to the Church of England; wherein he concludes the fall of Bishops.
Of Philadelphia, or the Scottish Church.
Of luke-warm Laodicea, or the Church of England, Typified by the learned Brightman.
Yr owdwl fraith, or a Song made by Rees Nanmor a Poet, unto Henry the Eighth, grounded on the Prophesies of Talieson and both the Merlines, wherein is exactly set forth the Kingly race from the English to the Scots, by the coming in of King James, whose Reign is fore-told to be peaceable, and of a red Parliament in the time of [Page 140] the late King, and of the Warrs that should follow, with many notable passages besides.
The Translation. Christ preserve Henry the Eighth, the lawfull heir of the Crown; wee shall have yet a Prince from the Whelp [...]nd father of Eysyllt; Wales be glad and rejoyce like a renowned Countrey; let Cornwall and Chester call for a Cock.
The Translation. Wee shall have Kadwallader and Kynan in a treble division; the courage of the Dragon will be full sha [...]p and prosperous in his Countrey; yea, the crowned Oxe of faithfull descent, of whom Taliesin sang melodious and sweet songs.
The Translation. The Song of Christ be on his head and strength; yea, the thrice notable Song or Crosse of the Trinity defend h [...]m and his Principality, as also his green flourishing Wood. Wee shall have men of equal honour from Knights to Dukes.
The Translation. Wee shall have a Bore in change, in whose reign we shall have a peaceable and happy time, wee shall likewise turn the stream contrary to its natural course, for wee shall have a froward Trout which will make warrs, who will prove a Bear with rough clawes and incredible sharpness.
The Translation. Wee shall have a gift, and afterwards a restitution clean contrary, which will be two several waies of different and displeasing nature; wee shall have of two tokens a dissenting and a violent Parliament; we shall have all to the warrs and battels, and shall overcome the rich chained Lords; wee shall finde the Crabs beaten and subdued by the armed Stagg.
The Translation. Wee shall have the right black Army under the command of the Lyon from the North; wee shall have the dead revived again, which will be the Bull and the Eagle with the large Territories; we shall have the white hill [...]ull of wrathfull crowds; wee shall have Powles with the Territories, and a hundred sumptuous Palaces of the Mould-warp.
The Translation. W [...]e shall have London divided, with fiercenesse unto it; wee shall have uproar upon the mountaines and rich vallies; wee shall finde the neighbour-Nations bestirring thems [...]lves for offensive and defensive warrs, and in the end wee shall be possessed of a valley abounding with wheat, and before a settlement wee shall finde a Neighbour that will condole [...]ur troubles.
The Translation. Wee shall have uproar and treacherous attempts, with willing prepensed plots and combinations, wee shall have sorry tokens of the heaving down of great Oaks; and after a white Spring wee shall have warrs from the woman; for want of patience, wee shall have deceitfull troubles from the L [...]lie.
The Translation. You Rose-trees continue not within the walls of London; the strange languisht Crabb with his people shall be in a forelorn condition in a strange Countrey; wee shall have Alarums and a slaughtered Summer; wee shall have the Normans in a preparation to depart, in a frowning and discontented manner.
The Translation. Wee shall gain by the losse of one field, strongly armed and fortified Cities, and when wee begin to carry the conquest, wee shall obtain Brecknock,; wee shall have heavy troubles and distractions from the man with the white robes, crossed in his proceedings and enterprizes, who shall come to his end; and then the council of a prisoner will be as unconstant as the winde.
The Translation. They will hatch a snare from the open flaming fire, but wee shall have a timely separation as true as the peny is round, and then the chief Flowers of England will vanish and decay, and also the Cat and Weesel will be in havock.
The Translation. The Chicken of the black Eagle will be m [...]ghty, invincible and powerfull, who will not come to his full age, if counsels and plots can prevail; the unstability of the Eagle with the two faces under a hood, can be no better confided in then the Lambs to the Fox.
The Transl [...]tion. The remembrance of old Dragons will be disputed by force of sharp pointed weapons; the Lyon with the strong and sure grapling, will bridle the body of the clawed Lyon by the maun, then shall we have the b [...]moaning of a divided race, but wee shall have a gift from a migh [...]y powerfull man.
The Translation. Wee shall have hot contestion with the vanquished Mould-warp about Castles and Forts, then the wings of the Scots will appear like a violent burning fire. I have sung a line of prophesie from the antient prophesies to the dark and cloudy Council, and that the hawk shall challenge too sarre.
The Translation. A Raven and a Swallow will make a stout and valiant chase, there will arise from the South a sword with a golden cloak, wee shall have a Stagg th [...]t will conquer and keep Townes and Castles with mighty strength, wee shall have the golden Horns and aged Stagg.
The Translation. Wee shall have nine of the same name, and shall have watchfull men, we shall have fair weather after a storm, for clouds or the nois [...] of warrs will vanish away, and wee shall have a renowned King; the noise of Trumpers will likewise vanish, and then we shall have a day of Coronation, which will be in the chastising moneth before the moneth of May.
The Translation. Wee shall have a Summer overflown with blood, and England in havock, and sh [...]ll be possessed of the Territories and treasutes of the unhappy conqu [...]r [...]d enemy, and shall have an aged and white bearded Conquerour that shall bear rule over Jack and John, and shall scatter them to a wandering condition.
The Translation. Wee shall follow the Man, whose strong and compleat wings shall lead him to fa [...]r Co [...]ntries; we sh [...]ve this Lyon in his well-fo [...]tified skinn, who will winn the holy Crosse, and then we shall be made fit play-fellows at [...]abl [...]s with the best Lords and E [...]ls; and lastly the unhappy discontented Plotters wi [...]l be forced over the Ocean sea.
The Translation. The Poet after his long progresse in discovering what shall befall England after Herry the Eighth, poures his hearty prayer to Christ for the Brittish Conquerour, as also of the Ninth Henry, and that Christ (for his passions sake) may preserve, protect and exalt them more and more in their glorious Conquests.
Reader,
You finde by the last a clear and plain Prophesie; make good use of it, and thou wilt thereby prevent thine own ruine.
Now followeth certain dates of prefixed times and years fore-told, first of the coming in of King James, or of his Coronation in England, of our Bickerings with the Scots, of the beginning of the late Warrs and its continuance, and also when further Attempts shall be expected, till a full settlement, collected together in brief for the satisfaction of the friendly Reader.
1. Pau fo T. blwyddin ar bymtheg athevgain a C C C a thri now mis gwedi Conquest Bastard, y diseyir y Norusans, ag ar ol hyny y bydd byd Bohwman.
The Translation. That in the year 538 after the Conquest of a Bastard, the Norman race shall fail, and warrs shall follow; about the end of so many years after the Norman Conquest, you may finde that K. James was crowned King of England. 538
The Translation. That God sh [...]ll produce wonderfull signes and tokens before the approaching of warrs, and then wo be to the Island of Gyants when the prime of the year be 9
The Translation. When the year of Christ comes to be 1640, then will be a black and fatal day ab [...]ut the old or Romish Religion. 1640
The Translation. When the year of Christ comes to be 1644, then will be a heavy slaughter amongst the English. 1644
[Page 149] The Translation. When the year of the Son of God comes to be 1640, then will be an uproar in London, with con [...]estion and hot dispute about the Crown. 1640
Hitherto of what hath been past: Now followeth the like dates or years, wherein some notable passages will be acted or attempted, to the glory of the innocent, and destruction of the common enemy of Peace.
The Translation. Count 3 on thy fingers end, if thou wilt be provident to p [...]event the danger of a storm then thou shalt see (but take heed) a dangerous world at the end of 5 after 9. Now sum up the whole, and you have 17, which is the odd number of the year of Christ. 1657
[Page 150] The Trans. When the odd number of the year. of Christ comes to be 56 and 4 nine daies, then the race of the Normans will fall to cruel destruction, or forced to give over their plottings; bu [...] which of these will fall out, can hardly be distinguished by the sence of the words. 1656: add to it 4 9 daies.
The Language of an Angel.
The interpretation (although formerly denied) here you have 3 Trayes, 3 Nines, and 9 Trayes; the which being summed, makes up 63; and when the number comes to be the odd of the year of our Lord, the randezvouz and heavy task of our Brittish Conqueror amongst the neighbour enemies and horns of the Beast of Rome, will be at an end; and by this time look for a reformation and calling of the Jews. 1663
The Translation. After the conclusion of the warrs by strength of sword and armes, then, or after all field battels the 9 halter moneths will peep in as right as the dice; and when these nine moneths of destruction are come and gone, then will young and old fall very merily to mend and repair the ruine of the Church; and then, and not till then, a Reformation.
That the Reader may the better satisfie his memory touching the two grand prophesies, or the Plaintiff and Defendant formerly mentioned in the two grand tryals, and their particular descents, and evident demonstrations of either, I will reduce in brief from what hath been said by prophesies, and then proceed to some out-landish prophesies in confirmation of what hath been said.
- 1. The Defendant or Brittish Conquerour is fore-told to have his descent from North-Wales.
- 2. from Alan.
- 3. from Owen.
- 4. from Bleddin.
- 5. from Cynvin.
- 6. from Bledding ap Cynvin, Prince of Pow [...]s.
- 7. from Angh [...]rad.
- 8. from Eysyllt.
- 9. from Conaud in Darthwy.
- 10. said to be the first after Edward the Sixt.
- 11. fore-told to strike with and beat down the standard of C. or Charls.
- 12. when such a one comes, Kadwallader is revived.
- 13. that such a one shall get by conquest what the Brittaines formerly possessed or owned.
- 14. the same fore-told to be a Brittain by the fathers side, & an Englishman born.
- 15. that this Conqueror shal strike with the blood of Ʋrien.
The Plaintiff and late King are said to be a new Sovereign as from Scotland. Fore-told to be of the race of Grissith, of the race of Llewelin, of the blood of Ʋrien.
The lineal descent of His Higness, OLIVER, Lord Protector of the Common-Wealth of England, Scotland and Ireland, &c. out of the body of Blethin ap Cynvin Prince of Powis in former times, as also from Cadwallader Fendiged the last King of the Brittains.
OLIVER, Lord Protector, Son to Robert Cromwell Esquire, Son to Sir Richard Cromwell, Son to Sir Richard Williams, aliàs Cromwell, begotten on a daugh [...]er of Walter Cromwell; which Sir Richard was Son to Morgan Williams, Son to William Morgan of New-Church in Glamorganshire, and one of the Privy Chamber to Henry the Seventh; Son to John, Son to Morgan, Son to Howel, Son to Madog, Lord of Kibion, Son to Alan Lord of Kibion, Son to Owen Lord of Kibion, Son to Cadwgan, Son to | Blethin ap Cynvin, Prince of Powis and North—Wales. |
BLETHIN Prince of Powis aforesaid, Son to Cynvin, Son to Gwenystan, Son to Gwaith Foedfawr, &c. the Great, | Prince of Wales. |
ANHARAD Mother to Blethin ap Cynvin, was the Daughter of Meredith, Son to Owen, Son to Howel dda, (or the Good) unto Cadell, Son to Roderick the Great, | |
Blethin ap Cynvin Prince of Powis, and Griffith ap Llewelin Prince of North Wales were half brethren, by Angharad aforesaid, onely daughter to Meredith ap Owen ap Howel dda, | Prince of Wales. |
EYSYLLT mother to the said Roderick was the daughter of Conan din daethwy, Son to Roderick Molwynog, Son to Idwell Iwrth, Son to Cadwallader fendiged the last | King of Brittain. |
This Blethin ap Cynvin was the first that carried the Principality of Powis, from the posterity of Brochwell yskithrog, | Prince of Wales. |
A prophesie of Merlin Silvestris, of the Bore or late King, of the late Warrs, the Kings flight, Worcester fight, and of the Conquest of the black Lyon.
Ni ffor r Baedd yn ddy gyffro onid enid awr, kanis Tair Ewin a gyfyd yn er bin y Baedd, ag vn or talr Ewin a ddaw o Scotland, r ailo brydain, ar drydydd o gymev, a phan ddechrevo r tair Ewin hiu ddigio, hwy Awnant ir Baed lawer Twrn Atkas. yr hwn yn r Amfer yna, a gyffrv yn dramynych, ag yna i gwna ef kyreh krevlon yn erbin i elynion, either in bydd elwor vn oisiwrn eiav ef, or Achos i kymer y Baedd goevlondeb a llid mawr wrtho hvn, agwrth lawero bobl y dyrnas, ar Baedd a kynill lawer o b [...]bl, r hain drwy lid a dywyssaef ir dehevdir, or man ni ddaw ganthaw ef ddimbydd yw dyrnas, namyn yn vnig All [...]idion, ofe a be [...]y yr Anghhariad hwn chyngtho ai dyrnas yn hi o Amser ynol.
Ag of fewn y Barkvtanod Amser hwn, i kyfyd Scotland, a phrydain a Chymrv yn erkiny baedd er dig iddoef, ag hefyd talm or Gwidd [...] a gwyr Almaen assaiff yn gadarn yn erbin y Badd yn ol hyn y Rhydd brenin y Gogledd wyf dyfwn, ar y bobl dier th i ddyfod ar feirch breniav i dyrnas y Baedd, a ffwyso awnant hwy yn grevlon yn erbin y Saxonia [...]d, ag yna i kilia r Baeddir movais bycn [...]u oi bobl gi [...]ag ef, ag ar fyrder ar oll i fynedef ir mor, i chenir y dyrnas yn dair chau, agynol llawer o fateloed a byrion ym [...]addav, i kyfid Parckell o weddill kenedl, ag awna sialens am y fflowr de lvws ai dyrnas.
Kais hin ofewn amser y llew dv, diame ydiw na chaisy Baedd heddwch yny dyrnas, kanis aml ymladdav a fyd o fewn r ynys hon trabar hathoi ll [...]w hi, o fewn r Amser hwn wi bydd tra [Page 154] Amal y Barkvtanad, ag yn ol bin y bydd maes, yn y [...]n a destrowir a dwyl [...]w, ar llew av ai gledd [...] yny y [...]y [...]as a [...] Go [...]n.
The Translation: That the Bore shall not continue in peace but a short time, for 3 sharp N [...]yl [...]s or Armies will [...]s [...] against him; one from Scotland, the s [...]cond from Brittain, the third from Wales; and when these three begins to fr [...]wn, they will work shrewd turns to the Bore, who, in those times will be often moved; then will he furiously assault his enemies, [...]ut shall not carry the glory or gain from any of his Ba [...]tels or Fields; w [...]ich losses will exasperate the Bore with cruelty against his enemies; then the Bore will gather a great multitude of people, and will command them to South-Wales, from whenc [...] they will return without glory or conquest, but lame and m [...]i [...]ed souldiers; and this rent, hatred or division will for a long while after continue b [...]tween him and his kingdom, and within this time of the Kites, will Scotland, England an [...] Wales arise against the Bore, with much wrath and hatred; l [...]kewise a party of the Irish and men of the German race will strongly and st [...]utly rise up against the Bore; then will a King of the No [...]th give sharp summons to stranger people to come by sea to the kingdome of the Bore; then will the Saxons be heavily pressed with the strength of these stranger enemy.
Then will the Bore be forced to flye to the sea with a very small company with him? and shortly after that he will betake himself to sea, will his kingdome be ruled by three, and after many battels and short fightings, will arise a Pigge of the remnant of a family and while he be sucking at his mothers breast, he shal make a challenge to the Flower de Luce, and his Kingdom seek out for this time when the Black Lyon shall appear and stand up; for then without doubt the Bore shall have neither rest nor peace in his kingdome, for there will be in h [...]s time manifold Battels in this Island of Brittain while her Lyon endures; in which time will Kites be num [...]rous, and afterwards will be on field of Battel, wherein will be a great destruction of both sides; and the Black Lyon by the power of the sword will conquer and get both the K [...]ngdom a [...]d Crown.
BOOK II. Europes Calamity, Englands Glory.
Now follow certain Prophesies out of Maxwels Collections, delivered by Outlandish Prophets and Prophetesses, to confirm what hath been said by our own, touching the downfall of the Church of Rome, the reformation of the Church, and also of the Person or Instrument which shall bring these glorious works to passe.
Out of Maxwels 5 section, fol. 31.
THere is a certain prediction written about 600 years ago, had out of the Library of S. Victor, which beginneth, Vae tibi Civitas septicolis, &c. Wo unto thee thou seven-hilled City, when the letter R shall threaten thy walls; for then the fall and destruction of thy mighty men is at hand. Wo unto the City of blood, full of lying, falshood and violence; the voice of the scourge, of the wheel, and of the warlike horse, the voice of viol [...]nce and spoil shall not depart from thee; the gold of Gods word is obscu [...]ed, and Religion, which is the worshipping of God according to his word, is pi [...]ifu [...]ly corrup [...]ed: the first Wo is past, behold another wo is at hand; let us flye away secretly from before his face, because the afflictions of our faces do begin; let us run, [Page 156] and let us not look behinde us, because from the North all Plagues are displayed: I beseech thee, good Lord, send him whom thou art to send.
Out of his 15 section, fol. 83.
Johannes Wolfius, in the second Tome of his memorable things, which beginneth thus: A certain Wight, equitable and upright, born in Europe, shall be the chief Pastor or Bishop of Christendom; such a one as shall manage and govern the Keys of the kingdom of heaven, and not the Scepters of the kingdomes of the earth, then there shall be peace and concord in the whole world, one faith and religion, and one Prince imperially reigning over all.
Out of his 16 section, fol. 84, 85, 86, 87.
According to the confession of the Italian Jesuite Hieronymus Platus, in his second book of the Religious Life, and 30 Chap. England hath been more fertile of Converters of Countries, and Nations to the Christian faith, then any other Land else: so is it not unlikely, but that God will have the same Countrey to be more fertile of Reformers of other corrupt Churches, especially of that of Rome, then any other Land whatsoever; and that as there is in no Countrey or Nation of the world to be found so many compleat Divines, for Judiciousness, Ingeniousness, and moderation, and for fitness to deserve well of the peace of the Church, as there is in England: so it may well be, that God will honour this same Island with the reformation of the Church of Rome, and her daughters, by sending forth from thence such godly, judicious, zealous, and moderate men, as shall reclaim them from their abuses and corruption, and restore unto them their primitive purity and integrity, such as it was in the daies of Constantine the Great, born in Great Brittain.
And so much seemeth to be imported by that prediction of Nostrodamus, which beareth that Rome shall be ruled by the Brittonish head.
[Page 157] In his first Century he saith, That the new King that joyns the lower and Northern Countries of Europe, shall be the instrument of losse to the Church of Rome; and that the Bishop of Rome, together with his Clergy (except they shew themselvs willing to be reformed) shall be made to spit blood, when the Rose shall flourish.
And in his 8 and 10 Centuries, That the ruine of Rome draweth near, not of her walls, but of her substance and blood, by the means of a learned Prince of sharp understanding: And, to be short,
He promiseth in his 5 Century, That of the Trojan blood shall spring a Prince of a daughty-Dutch heart, who shall attain unto so high a degree, that he shall both chase farr away the Arabick or Mahumetane multitudes, and likewise return to the Church her antient eminency and sincerity.
Likewise out of the Library of S. Victor, there is a prediction ci [...]ed by the Abbot of Cluny, attributed to Abbot Ioachim, which saith, That the Red Roses should send forth the sweet water that shall purifie and cleanse the Church from her corruptions.
To which agreeth another prophesie of Paracelsus, fore-telling, how that among the Roses should spring up one who should change the sandy foundation into a Rock; a thing (saith he) that shal make many a one to wonder. Agreeable to the same is a certain prognostical verse, found in an old manuscrips, imparted to Mr Iames Maxwell by Mr S. George Norrey King at Armes.
That is to say, The Rose of England beareth and b [...]ingeth the Crosse of Christ to forraign Lands. Hereunto likewise may be referred that voice, as William of Malmsbury affirmeth in his second book of the Kings, which was uttered in a Vision to holy Brithwald Bishop of Winchester, who lived in the Confessors daies, saying, Regnum Anglorum est Dei, the kingdome [Page 158] of England is Gods; meaning that th [...] Kingdom & Countrey of England should prove a chief instrument of the propagation of the Gospel and faith of Christ unto forraign Lands.
So that by that which hath been said, it would seem, that from the Rose of England shall proceed or spring the reformation and purgation of the Church of Rome, like as the same City once received from the same Countrey the first authoriz [...]d profession of the Christian saith, by the blessed means of Constantine the Great, a Britain born. Paulus secundus Grebnerus the Germane Astrologian, in his seritum mundi filum, delivers, That the Lyon having the Rose and Lilies in his Armes, shall utterly destroy the Pope, so that there shall be none after that time.
The holy Bishop and Martyr S. Methodius, in his book entituled, Of the last times, hath fore-told, that God shall punish the corrupters of his Church, purge his house, and restore her purity.
For in the last Age of the world, that is (saith he) in the last thousand of six, the sons of Ishma [...]l shall come forth out of the desart, and their coming shall be chastisement without measure, and without mercy; and God shall g [...]ve over into their hands all the kingdoms of the wicked; and further saith, That Spain shall perish by the sword, and that the Inhabitants thereof shall be led Captive.
Philippus Boskierus, a learned Franciscan Friar, in his 9 Phil [...]pp [...]ck for the holy Land, writeth, That the kingdome of Spain is in great danger of desolation and destruction at the hands of the Turks and Moors, for their cruelty used against the Americans.
Likewise Nostrodamus in divers of his predictions fore-telleth, that the Turks shall over-run Hungary and Italy; yea, (saith Antonius Torquatus) France shal not be free from the Turkish fury, nor yet Germanie: and Reynardus Lolardus saith, that the Agarens shall yet once again gather themselves together, and come out of the desarts in troops into Germany, and that they shall obtain the land of the Moon for the space of eight years, they shall subvert Kingdoms and Cities, kill the Priests [Page 159] in the holy places, prof [...]ne the holy vess [...]l, d [...]fl [...]ur Christian women, turn the Chu [...]che [...] in [...]o Stables, a [...]d tye their Steeds to the monuments of the Saints, because of the wickedness of Christian people in th [...]se d [...]e [...], an [...] in end th [...]y shall be destroyed, near unto the golden Appl [...] of Agr [...]pp [...]ne, when as there shall be few Christian Pri [...]ces left to make resistance, and almost none (al [...]!) saving a cer [...]ain most inv [...]ncible King of Spain, who in th [...]se daies shall k [...]ll the last Successor of the Mahometane Duglossius.
So shall the lofty pr [...]de of the Turks have a fall, their Kingdomes shall b [...] brough [...] to the Church; the Turkish Empire of Trapezond shall be br [...]ught back again to the Patrimony or Empire of our crucified Lord, by the hands of the Cross bearing servants and souldiers, and then shall the Church grow again into a new sta [...]e of everlasting Charity, Concord and Peace, for there shall be a reformation, a new kinde of l [...]w or religion, better t [...]an the old, together with honesty of conversation both in Clergy and Laytie.
And again saith Reynardus▪ if the Princes of Germany do not agree with the great Eagle, but fall to the kindling of civil warrs amongst themselves. Duglossius [...]heir shall not fail to come, even the fifteenth branch of the Turkish tyrannical tree, and waste Poland, M [...]sia, Thuring, Hesse, Pruten, P [...]cardie, Braban [...], Flanders, and surp [...]sse farre in cru [...]lty and rage the fiercest beasts against the Christians of the North W [...]st, but hee shall be killed b [...]sides the golden Apple of Agrippine, according to the prediction of Merl [...]n.
Out of his 8 section, from the Prophesie of St VINCENT.
Then there shall enter into Italy three [...]ost puiss [...]nt Armies one from the West, another from th [...] East, and the third from the North, which shall fight to get her, and there shall be such blood sh [...]d as the l [...]ke hath not been seen in Ital [...] si [...]c [...] the world began; and then the Eagle shall tak [...] the counterfeit King, and all things sha [...]lbe subdued and made obedient unto him, and [Page 160] there shall be a new reformation in the world, but wo and wo again shall be then to the shaven Order, for the sect of divisers and attempters shall cease.
Again, saith the same St Vincent, because the understanding of holy Scripture hath borrowed a strange colour from Philosophers; for the most part of preachers now adayes preach not the simplicity of the Gosp [...]l, but the subtilty of Aristotle; in which words the holy man t [...]xeth the nice and subtile kinde of divinity devised by the School-men: Wee have likewise (saith he) drunk water for money; that is to say, we have been made to buy with our money the holy Sacraments, which are the instruments of Gods free grace signified by the water; for now all our Priests are guilty of Simony.
Out of his 10 section, fol. 44.
S. Brigide foretelleth, how that out of the Western part of the world shall spring a Lily, which shall grow to a thousand thousands in the Virgin land, and shall be strong [...]r than the Cedar, and recover the things that are lost, and with his odour or sweet smell perfume, and as it were bewater the infected and poisoned parts of the world.
S. Cataldus Finius likewise fore-telleth, that among the Lilies shall arise a comely Prince, having a near name amongst the Kings of that Countrey, and whose nature and nation shall have a resemblance with his name, unto whom the whole world shall do homage, when the high O [...]e is fallen, and when he hath stricken down the prickly Bear, (meaning the Turk) happy and blest shall his years be from the West to the East; from the East to the cold Quarter, and from the North to the warme South.
This flourishing or flowery Prince bearing the new name, shall plant the Vine of our Saviour: unto whom all Nations shal submit themselves, and the Crown of the East shall be given him to keep.
Out of his 12 secti [...]n, fol. 55.
S. Methodius fore-told, that the Ish [...]aelite [...] shall possesse from East to West, and from South to North, their yoke shall be heavy upon the neck of all Nations, and that none shall be able to resist them, until a certain determinate time be past, that they shall come forth of the desart in the sixt thousand years and vexe mightily with warr Spain, France, and Germany, and put the Romans to flight and to the [...]dg of the sword. But, saith Reynardus Lolardus, and also J [...]ven [...]s Anglicus, the Turk shall in the end be overcome and killed at the Golden Apple of Agrippine.
Paracelsus fore-tells, that when a certain terrible Ecclipse of the Sun is past, together with great inundation or overflowing of waters, that then divers tumults, seditions, battels, burnings, and blood-shedings shall mightily molest the Northern Nations, namely Brabant, Flanders, Zeland and Holland: in those daies (saith he) the [...]ly shall wither.
Johannes Wolfus in his 16 Century alledgeth a p [...]ediction, That when King Henry shall reign, twice made King, beloved both in word and deed, a certain strong man shall pluck the Lilies out of the French Garden; the King himself shall fall, and his people; both Clergy and Layty shall perish by the sword, the pl [...]gue famine, and fire.
Nostradamus in his 1 Century and 49 quadrin, fore-telleth, that the Oriental Nations shall about the year 1700, subdue almost all the Northern corner or quarter of the world; and in his 5 Century and 94 quadrin saith, that the great Duke of Armenie shall assault Vienna and Collen; and in his 2 Century and 78 q [...]ad in he saith, that the chief of Scotland, together with six of Germany, shall be taken captive of the Orientals at sea, and carrid through Spain into Persia, and there presented to their new King.
That in the end (saith Nostradamus) the Northern Nations being confederated together, shall prevail over the Eastern, and that certain Princes of the Trojane, French, and German land, (especially two) whom he c [...]lleth brothers, not brothers, shall practise such prowess and martial feats, in bringing down the [Page 162] Turkish Turbants, with all the Arabian Troops, that the Isle of Rhodes and the City of Constantinople shall be seen to overflow with Barbarian blood.
A notable prophesie of the Abbot of Werde in Calabris, found in his Sepulchre some 300 years and more after his burial.
In the year 1593, in the mean time that his Masons were casting down an old wall, in his Monastery, and digging deep to lay a new foundation; there they found a Sepulchre of Stone, and therein a Corps almost all consumed, holding in the hand a plate of silver with this inscription:
Englished, When the holy City shall be enlightened by a bright Starr, then shall the Sun see me again; this is the body of the Abbot of Hydruntum, buried the 27 of October in the year of our Lord 1279; and under the head thereof was found a little marble Chest, and therein a leaden Box containing a certain parchment, wherein was written a prophesie in old characters; a part whereof is thus in English:
In those daies many famous Cities shall p [...]rish by spoyl both within and without, especially in Italy, and both in the Kingdome of Naples and in Toscany, fearfull and terrible things, more than one would beleeve should come to passe; my native Countrey of Hydruntum shall be destroyed again, and made d [...] solate by the Mahometane Dragon; Rome shall be shaken in a notable manner, so shall Florence, expecting a revenge under her Apostate Duke: the nest of Philosophers (meaning Padua) shall be likewise shaken, and Genua shall incurr tribulation at the enemies hands, for lo hath the Lord revealed unto me.
The Turks with their tongues of fury shall pollute Venice; the whole Kingdome of Sicily shall perish; many Monasteries shall fall through the poyson of the Northern Eagle, and much blood shall be shed because of the two battels of the French and Hollanders.
[Page 163] The Oracle of Sibyll of Cuma foretelleth, that there shall be no peace in the Virginal Land, to wit, in Italy, and in the Roman Church; and the Nation without an head shall bear rule in those daies, and afterwards shall adhere unto the Great Eagle.
That the Turk shall prevail so farr upon divided Christians, that he shall take unto himself the stile of Emperor of Romanies, together with the Eagle ensign of the Empire, aye [...]ntil the Lyon of the Tribe of Judais send forth from the wood the roaring Lyon to accuse, condemn and destroy the foresaid tyrannical Eagle for his manifold iniquities and cruelties practized upon Gods p [...]ople. According to the Vision of 4 Esdras 11, 12. the Erythrean Sibyll alledged by Abbot Joachim, seemeth to condescend herein; whereas she saith, that after the first Eagle shall come a second with one head (for he shall be Emperour o [...] East and West united in one) having threescore feet; for his Empire shall consist of 60 Kingdomes, with the colour and spight of a Panther, the subtilty and craft of a Fox, with the terrour and fiercenesse of a Lyon.
The Eagle then which should be overcome of the Lyon, is either the Turk, having through the discord of Christians got into his hands the residue of the Romane Empire, or else it is that Romane Emperour whom the Pope shall create of his own accord, whom Severus calleth the black Eagle of Ligurgit, or he of whom Nostradamus fore-telleth, that shall be born near Italy.
Another Oracle of Sibylla aforesaid, fol. 69.
Which beareth, that God shall send into the world an Emperour or King, that shall refresh all the world from bloody warr, having rooted out some, and c [...]ntracted a league of Amity with other some; neither shall be dispose of things according to his own private fancy, but in his proc [...]edings he shall follow the venerable Decrees and Ordinances of the Lord, and then shall the beloved people of the great God flourish again.
Another old Prophesie agreeable to the same, had out of the Library of the Abbet of Cluneis in France, written near 600 years ago, fol. 70.
In the latter daies, highly shall ascend a certain weight prevented with double honour, a lover of our crucified Lord, an entertainer and cherisher of peace, and of an excellent wit, and yet those excellent things which he doth intend, shall not be brought to passe; he shall make high things to fall, and low things to be exalted; h [...] shall b [...]autifie the heaven, (to wit the Church) shall cut d [...]wn woods and groves, reach forth hi [...] hands to the poor, and be as a husband to the widowes.
And then take heed thou black turning Sphere, (meaning the corrupt Church of Rom [...]) least thou be vexed with a winde from the North; in thy tribulation defend thy self with the Crosse.
The man coming from the obscure Center, that is, from a certain Countrey of small account, behold, he ascendeth to double honours, even he that bringeth to concord and union such as are at discord [...]nd division, that turneth about the moon.
And again, O thou Prince of ripe understanding, thou art called unto high things, why art thou thus in an agony within thy self? be strong, kill Nero, to wit, the tyrannical Turk, and thou shalt be without fear; heal the wounded, take a scourge into thy hands, and kill the flies, cast such as do sell, out of Gods Temple, t [...]ke un [...]o thee the clear enlightened doctrine, preach the Just one, (meaning Ghrist Jesus unto the Jewes) invite the circumcised ones, direct the Dove, and slaken those that be athirst.
Another out of the Abbot of Cluneis Library, fol. 72.
A certain Prince shall call a general Council, for the clearing of the obscured trueth, and the reforming of the Church.
And the red Flowers shall distill or drop down a sweet savoury water, (meaning from the Isle of Brittany) especially from the most happy Countrey of England, whose royal Ensign [Page 165] is the united White Red-Rose, and as it were from the moderate and judicious heads and hearts of her reverend Prelates and D [...]ctors, shall flow and spring the sweet water of sound doctrine and discipline, and that shall purifie and cleanse the Church of Rome from all her c [...]rruptions and spots.
A prediction of Parac [...]lsus touching the renovat [...]on of the Church, in such a time when some 60 may be numbered from such a year, fol. 76.
A great alteration and renovation shall be made, when some 60 may be numbered from such a year; then he pointeth at a certain Prince exceedingly affected towards the concord of Christians, and the reformation of the Church in these words: Thou hast taken great pains to make a golden age, and therefore having fin [...]sh [...]d my task, take thy test; no man shall overcome thee, yea, there shall be no man to stirr thee up, or to awake thee from the sleep of thy rest or peace; so long as the number of years i [...] not doubled, which thine enemies have numbered from thy nest.
A Vision of Hieronymus Savanacola the Dominican Friar, out of the same sect. 14. fol. 81.
Savanacola saw in a Vision in the year of our Lord 1482, two Crosses; the one was black, planted in the midst of the City of Rome, spreading (as it were) the Armes over the whole earth, and with the top touching the heaven, whereon was written these words, Crux Irae Dei, the Crosse of Gods anger or wrath: which having seen, behold (saith hee) incontinent I beheld and saw the aire darkened and trouble [...] with tempestuous clouds, winde [...], lightening, darts, swords, fire, and haile; and me thought I saw innumerable number of men destr [...]yed through the force and violence thereof, so that few were lest beh [...]nde unsl [...]i [...].
Afterwards, I saw a sweet, fair, an [...] a clear time ensuing; and lo, I beheld and saw (as it were) a golden Crosse in the midst of [Page 166] Jerusalem, of the bigness and height of the former, so bright, that it d [...]d enlighten the whole world, and filled the same with new gladness and joy, and it had written upon it, Crux Misericordiae Dei, the Crosse of the mercy and favour of God.
And lo, incontinent and on a sudden all the Nations of the world of both sexes came in troops from all parts to b [...]hold and embrace it; by the which the holy man was fore-warned of the future cast [...]gation and renovation of the Church of Rome, & how that the A [...]osto [...]ical sea should be removed from thence to Jerusalem; which is likewise according to the prediction of the Franciscan Friar Iohannes de Rupe scissa.
Where unto may be referred the prediction of Merlin Caledonius, which is thus, I rejoyced of those things that were revealed unto me; for after a long tribulation of Christians, and an exceeding effusion or spilling of innocent blood, the prosperity and peace of God shall come to a desolate Nation; for God will send a Reformer and Conquerour, who shall rectifie and redresse all things amisse both in the East and West Church, and bring all things according to the form of the primitive Church; then one Faith or Religion will be in force, then there shall be one Pastor, and one Law; for Christ Jesus shall redresse and bring into good order all things amisse.
Out of the Appendix of the same, fol. 117.
The Rev [...]lation of Reynardus saith, That after ten years past in after-times, a great Eagle shall arise, which shall chastise m [...] ny, and make the inhabitants of the seas to mourn. Who can resist him (saith he) seeing he hath power from the most High? he shall carry away with him 3 kingdomes, and the people shall cry Alas, alas, wo, wo: the same is the great Eagle, which after 5 years sleep shall begin to talk familiarly with the Lily, and afterwards shall make it to tremble, together with other lofty mountaines; Cities and Castles he shall astonish with the noise of his wings, and there shall be a great and bitter mourning, such as hath not been heard of of old, amongst the Inhabitants of the West sea, and in the Virginal land, he shall spoil the L [...]lies.
[Page 167] In the which predictions, the great Eagle seemeth to be the Turk, who should subdue the rest of the Empire, and mightily subdue the Countries of the West, especially the most noble Countrey of France, according to some other predictions formerly alledged.
A prophesie of S. Bridgide out of the same, fol. 118.
Surgat Rex pudicus f [...]ri, &c. that is to say, There shall arise a King of a shamefast countenance, who shall reigne over all; and entering into the h [...]use of the mother Eagle, shall hold the Monarchy from East to West.
Reynardus again fore-telleth, That the children of the low Countries of Dutch-land shall be a prey to the Fowles of heaven, and to the beasts of the earth; so shall those under the heart of Virgo, and of Scorpio; they shall fall before the mouth of the sword, and the habitation of the Western people and of the Scorpionists shall be desart.
The Lord (saith he) shall unsheath the sword of warr and of extream desolation upon those of Picardie, Flanders, and the neighbouring Countries; afterwards those of Bavier shall be brought under his Scepter, and many beams of the Church shall be dark [...]ned both in Germany and France, because the coming of that King shall be sudden and unexpected, in the midst of security and peace.
It is not amiss, for memories sake, to give you a brief summ of the principal subjects handled in these prophet [...]cal Collections.
First, you have two grand Tryals, and the Defendant or Brittish Conquerour maintained by prophesie to be a Brittain by the Paternal line or descent, and an Englishman born.
2. Said to come in the first-born after Edward the Sixt.
3. Said to descend from 7 Ancestors by expresse names.
4. Said to strike or maintain warrs with he blood of Ʋrien.
5. Said to beat down the standard of a Scottish C. or Charls.
[Page 168] 6. Said to have his descent from Blethin ap Cynvin Prince of Powis.
7. Said to make a full Conquest of what the Brittains formerly enjoyed.
The Plaintiff likewise is maintained to be of the Sco [...]tish race.
2. Of the race of Griffith.
3. Of [...]he race of Llewelin.
4. Of the race of Ʋrien.
5. To bear the name of a Charles.
Now followeth the Judgwents of learned and famous Divines, Astrologers, and Astronomers, touching a great change in the world amongst Ki [...]gs, Princes, and Emperours, at certain times and yeares probably to fall out.
In the year of the World 3665, Ptolomaeus Ph [...]ladelphus reigning in Egypt, some 469 yeares after the building of Rome, there lived one Hiparchus, a famous Astrologer, who reports, That in his time the Starr, commonly called Stella Polaris, which is in the Tayle of the lesser Bear, was 12 degrees and 2 firsts distant from the Poles of the Equator.
This Starr from age hath insensibly still crept nearer to the Pole; whence it appears, that the Poles of the Equator are moveable. It was not in the time of Peter du Moulin (the observer hereof) past 3 degrees distant from the Poses of the Equator.
When this Starr therefore shall come to touch the Pole, there being no further space left for it to go forward (which may well enough come to passe within 5 or 600 yeares) it seemeth that then there shall be a great change of things, and that this time is the period which God hath prefixed to Nature. Du Moulin in his accomplishment of Prophesies, fol. 251.
[Page 169] Learned Brightman in his exposition of the 12th Chapter of Daniel, ver. 12. concludes, That the two grand enemies of Christ (viz. the Turk and the Pope) shall be destroyed, and the dispersed Jews called in to the Christian faith, with a flourishing time of Christianity, by the year of Christ 1
Henricus Alstedius concludes these happy and desired events, together with Christs personal reign on earth in Anno 1694
Nicholas Culpepper his Annotations and Predictions upon the ecclipse of the Sun, March 29. 1652.
It is a remarkable thing, the two superiour bodies Saturn and Jupiter, who alwaies use to make a Conjunction in one and the same triplicity, should the last time anticipate and make the third in the watry triplicity, having made but two in the fiery, their last being in the weakest and meanest signe of the Z [...]d [...] ack.
This I can neither reade nor believe they did since the creation of the world, until these our daies; for we are brought forth to live in those daies, in which the kingdomes of the world shall become the kingdomes of our God and of our Lord Christ, blessed be his holy name for it.
However, by this conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter, God manifesteth by the book of the Scripture, That hee will pu [...]l down the lofty, and exalt the humble and meek; and this you may reade in them and the time when, without a pair of Spectacles, if you are of the nu [...]ber of the men of Issachar, 1 Chron. 12. or of their spirit, to annoint your spiritual David King, who had skill to teach Israel what to do: I tell you, and I tell you but the trueth, the year 1655 shall not passe over your heads but you shall acknowledg one knowing man of Issachar to be of more worth then all Sion Colledg, and King Henries the Seventh Chappel to boot.
[Page 170] Yea, so indulgent is the great God of heaven and earth over p [...]oud, insulting, and domineering Kings and Priests, that he will give them more significations then one or two by the book of the Creatures, even those great Ecclipses of the Sun: this I now handle, and that other, An. 1654 upon the second of August; then which, to our eyes, nor the eyes of our Fathers, Grandfathers, nor great Grandfath [...]rs, never saw gr [...]ater nor more terrible.
Johannes Henricus Alstedius, taking occasion to speak of the last conjunction of Saturn and Jup [...]t [...]r, saith, It would bring a new Government into the world, d [...]fferent from Kingly Government; prognosticating the ruine of Kings, Princes, all Governors, even from the Emperour to the Constable, G [...]neral of Armes, &c. and that all the Princes of Europe, nay all those of the world are threatened by it.
Hitherto you have heard by sundry Prophesies, both forreign and domestick, how that the Turk and Pope shall come to their end, as well as the rest of the Kings, Princes and Emperours of the earth, and that by pow [...]r of the sword. Now you shall have learned Brightmans judgment of the last period of the Turkish Empire.
Brightmans Commentary on chap. 9. Apoc. fol. 104. How long time this power that is here given to the Turks should last, it is declared in the n [...]xt words, which were prepared at an hour and a day, a moneth and a year; the which so exquisite a description serveth to comfort the godly, to whom the holy Ghost would have it known, that this most grievous calamity hath his appointed termes and limits, even to the last moment, beyond which it should not be prolonged; the which sp [...]ce seemeth to be for 396 years, every day being taken for a year, after that manner as we did interpret the moneths before. Now a year here put simply is understood to be a vulgar and usual Julian year, that consists of 365 dayes, and some houres; all which time being numbred from the year 1300, shall expire at [Page 171] last about the year 1696, which is the last term of the Turkish name, as other Scriptures also do prove with a marvellous consent; in the mean time wee must know, that the strength of the Turks shall not stand entire, and unshaken during this term, but shall [...]o [...]ter, and waxe towards the ruine thereof about 40 years before that their utter destruct on shall come.
Now followeth a Prophesie of St Hildegard a devout and religious Abbatesse, uttered about the year of Christ 1146, 60 years before the begging Fryars were born; clearly fore-telling their manifold abuses, yea, so l [...]vely as if shee had lived in their daies.
You shall have it verbitim out of the Commentary of learned Brightman on Dan. 9. fol. 101.
The preamble of learned Brightman, I have a good minde (saith he) to adde to all that hath been said, in stead of a conclusion, the Prophesie of Hildegard the Abbatesse; both because I have often made mention of it, as also because I think it is not easily come by, and it doth serve to give much light to the matter in hand. That worthy man John Fox, and Countreyman of blessed memory, hath set this same down in his book of the Acts and Monuments of the Church.
The Prophesie.
In those daies there shall rise up a sort of blockish fellowes, proud, covetous, perfidious, and crafty, that shall eat up the sins of the common people, carrying a certain shew of foolish superstion, under a feigned coverture of beggery; preferring themselves before all other men, by reason of a counterfeit religion.
Men of an arrogant disposition and feigned holiness, void of all shame, or fear of God, in inventing many new mischiefs, [Page 172] strong and stout; but all prudent men and faithfull Christians shall curse this pestilent order. Men who will shun labour, and give themselves holy to idlenesse, rather choosing to get their living by flattery and beggery, and that will bend themselvs with all t [...]eir might every way they can, perversly to resist the teachers of the truth, and hinder them; and for this end they will fl [...]tter Noblemen, that may assist them in this purpose. They shall also deceive the Nobles, and draw them into error, that they may furnish them with all necessaries, yea with all the delights and pleasures of this world; for the devil shall engraft these four principal vices into their mindes, Flattery, Envy, Hypocrisie and Slander; flattery, where with to purchase great matters to themselvs; envy, when they shall see benefits bestowed upon others besides themselves; hypocrisie, whereby they shall se [...]k to please men by means of a counterfeit dissembling; slander, whereby they shall ex [...]oll and set out themselves with praises, by derogating from others, that they alone might be renowned among men, speci [...]lly the simpler sort that are deceived by them.
They shall preach indeed diligently, but without all sense of piety, and not after the manner of the holy Martyrs of old; they shall derogate from the secular Princes, they shall take away the Sacraments from the true Pastors, and shall take almes of those that are very sick and miserable, insinuating and by little and little winding themselves into the hearts of the common people.
They shall have familiarity with women, teaching them how to deceive their husbands and friends with sugered and dissembling words; how to rob them of their goods, and then to give the same, being thus purloyned, unto these their teachers; for they shall lay hold on whatsoever men get, or howsoever it be gotten, by stealth, robbery, or by any legerdemain; and will say to them, Give it unto us, and we will pray for you; so that labouring to cover other mens sins, they shall quite forget their own.
And (alas!) they shall receive any thing from rogues, filchers, theeves, robbers that steal by the high-way side, sacrilegious persons, [Page 173] userers, adulterers, hereticks, schismatick, apostats, wheres and bawds of Noblemen, perjured merchants, corrupt Judges, souldiers, Tyrants, or from any that live contr [...]ry to Gods law.
Perverse and wick [...]d men they shall be, embracing the perswasion of the devil, the sweetnesse of sin, a soft a [...]d d [...]licate life; and a certain fulnesse and abundance of all worldly things, though it be to their own eternal damnati [...]n: and all these things shall manifestly appear to be in them, and they sha [...]l every day waxe more wick [...]d, and that with mindes more and m [...]re obdurate.
But, when as once their crafty conveyances shall be found out & all their other wickedness, then shal their large gi [...]s cease, and they shall go from house like hunger-bitten and m [...]d dogs, looking down upon the earth, and drawing in their necks like doves, and all to get their fill of bread.
Then shall the people pursue them with this out-cry, Wo be unto you miserable wretches, that are ordeined to sorrow; the the world hath deceived you, the devil hath guided you with his reines hitherto, your fl [...]sh i [...] frail, your heart is altogether without wit, graces or wisedom, you [...] mindes are unstable and wavering, and your eies are blinded with much vanity and folly, your idle bellies have lusted after delicate d [...]shes of meat, and your feet have been swift to wickednesse.
Remember the time when you were in fight happy, yet privily envious; poor abroad, but [...]ich at home; cou [...]teous in shew, but great flatterers in deed; unfaithfull, treachetous, perverse, back-biters, holy hypocrites, supplanters of the trueth, immoderately just, proud, unchaste, unconstant teachers, delicate martyrs, gain-thirsty confessors; gentle, but yet slanderers; religious, but yet covetous; humble, but yet proud; mercifull, but yet impudent lyars; pleasant fla [...]terers, peace-making persecutors, oppressors of the poor, bringers in of mensects devised by your selves; mrn that were counted mercifull, but are found out to be wicked wretches, lovers of the world, conjurers, drunkards, ambitious, patrones of wicked facts, the polers and pillers of the whole world; unsatiable preachers, that [Page 174] seek to please men, and to deceive women; sowers of discord, of whom that famous Prophet Moses spake wisely in his Song, A people without counsel and understanding; would to God they had knowledg and understanding, and could have fore-seen their latter end.
Yee have built your nests on high indeed; and when yee could rise up no higher, ye fell down like as did Simon Magus, whom God destroyed and smote wi [...]h a mighty plague; so shall you be thrown down upon the earth out of the clouds, and that by means of your false doctrines, your wickednesse, lyes, slanders, and detestable facts.
Then the people shall say unto them, Out upon you, get yee packing hence, you Captaines of mischief, over-turners of trueth. ye Shunamitish brethren, fathers of heresies, false Apostles, that counterfeited the lives of the Apostles, whereof yee have not been imitators by no means: you sons of iniqu [...]ty, wee will not follow the manner of your waies.
For Pride and arrogancy have seduced you, and insatiable covetousnesse hath entangled your erring mindes; and seeing that you would needs ascend up higher then was meet and equal for you, yee are fallen back headlong into everlasting shame and reproach by Gods just judgment.
And so farr Hildegards Prophesie of the abominable abuses of the Church of Rome, and her wicked and counterfeit crew of Jesuites and Fryars; which learned Brightman brought in to clear his exposi [...]ion aforesaid: whereby it may appear in what high esteem and credit prophesies were and are still amongst the learned.
From which Prophesie may be gathered, first the corruption of the said Church and Priests; secondly, the downfall of both predicted in plain terms:
[Page 175] The Turks have a prophesie amongst themselves, That their Emperour should win the Red A [...]ple of Constantinople; and in the sixth year after, if they did not defend th [...]mselves bravely, th [...] Christians should overcome them; but howsoever i [...] the twelfth, they should at furthest be overcomed by the Christians, then their fatal destruction not to passe the twelfth year, makes them in the mean while use the Christians as their future destroyers, with much hostilicy, as a revenge anticipate.
Sibylla Tiburtina's Prophesie of the Birth of our Saviour Christ.
More of the Oracles of Sibylla (according to Castalio) against Rome and her pretended holy Father the Pope.
Out of her first book at this part: De Coelo veniet Sidus magnum in mare magnum, &c.
Out of the same fift book at this part: Italia infelix, deserta, infleta manebis, &c.
Out of the seventh Book.
Out of the eighth Book.
Then followeth immediately of the Pope.
And shortly after followeth, out of the same.
Then followeth,
Furtherance to the scope of Prophesies.
REnowned Inhabitants of Great Brittain, both VVelsh and English, you have presented to your view Collections of Prophesies, both forreign and domestick, touching the fate of most (if not all) of the Kingdomes of the earth.
Wherein you may take notice of two wonderfull observations: First, that all the Kings and Kingdoms of the world are terribly threatened and fore-warned of their subversions, destructions, and desolations, and wholly to be subdued and conquered; except Great Brittain and Ireland, against whom there is not the least menacing of danger to be any further conquered or made desolate.
Secondly, all these prophesies (as well forreign and domestick) with unanimous voice and harmonious consent, cry out a Conquerour and Reformer of the universal Church of Christ, from the Brittains or Island of Great Brittain; who, by the foreseen and general consent, is agreed upon to be the Instrument or instrumental cause of subduing and conquering of most of the Kingdomes of the world.
Suppose that some, both of forreign and domestick Prophets, might be seduced and misled, either by their own fancies, or spirit of lying; I hope you will not conclude thereby, that all are seduced and m [...]sled; nay, rather you will grant, that some of them might be free from suspition, and guided by the spirit of truth, as the real accomplishment of what they fore-told c [...]n bear witnesse; your due observation of which, and of their viva voce in their particularities, (I presume) will oblige you to esteem of these Coll [...]ctions as of truthes; otherwise, as to injure the just, can be no lesse then great impiety.
According to the real in [...]ention and hearts integrity of these Prophesies, I make bold to minde you, day and night to square [Page 181] your lives as becometh chosen Instruments for bringing to pass the glorious works here destinated for you, and likewise yield laud praise to the L [...]rd of hostes for his favourable acceptance of you to advance his glory, above all the rest of the children of men, which is a priviledg that former ages have not enjoyed.
True it is, you may finde in our Brittish Prophesies, herein collected, terrible threatnings against the Land of Brittain, especially the English Nation, which were all in force till the late extirpating and suppressing of Papists and Popery, with their idolatrous and superstitious rites and ceremonies, the downfall of Bishops, the ejecting of lazy drones and scandalous Ministers from the ministery, especially till the late starting up of a Brittish Conquerour, the ushering in of the late Warrs between the divided Nations of Great Brittain, together with the heavy slaughter of both sides; all which (I say) have put a period unto their menacings against the English.
The accomplishment of which heads have brought in a perfect attonement, reconc [...]liation and union between the Nation of England, bearing the name of English, and the race of the antient Brittains, so that formerly they were in the esteem of proyh [...]sies, like two divided streams of rivers, running at a distance, till their meeting in a bottom of a valley, then run their natural race in one entire body and individual course to the Ocean.
So the English and Welsh, after the accomplishment of the aforesaid heads, are f [...]om thenceforth repu [...]ed by our proph [...]sies as one body ordained by a decree from heaven to steer their course with mutual love, and are made instruments to performe and bring to passe the glorious works of Christ and his Kingdom, in subduing of his enemies and reforming of his Church; wee are told by holy writs, that all these Kings and Kingdoms of the world that set themselvs against the Lord Christ and his kingdome, shall be bruised with a rod of iron, and broken to pieces in the end; and these prophesies tell you, that this end, or their destruction is not farr off from this present generation.
[Page 182] Your diligent perusal of these will tell you, That there is not the least menacing of danger (I mean by any future conquest) to this Nation, but rather proclaimed (as you are already told) to be made Conquerours and Subduers of Kings and Kingdomes: I confess that this Nation (without Gods providence) shall be further troubled and molested for a short while, with disturbing enemies both within and without; the enemies without shall be sure of losse and repulse; the enemies within, as sure of condigne punishment, for their unadvised and treacherous attempts, yet those unadvised courses shall shortly vanish; for one brother will be awed by anothers punishment, and all of you shall be made sensible, That Plots, Combinations and Confederacies shall not prevail against the decree and ordinance of heaven.
Behold, how the Lord of hostes began his judgments at his own house; I mean with his beloved Spouse here in England; and how well shee is purged by this time of her Romish Wolves and their Idolatrous Rites and Cerimonies, of her haughty and corrupt Bishops, and also of her lazy drones and scandalous ministers: the next workes of the mighty Lord amongst you by consent of prophesies, will be the work of Reformation in his Church here amongst us of Brittain.
And then ere it be long, you shall finde that this lovely Spouse will spread her tender wings over the misty and darksom Kingdoms of Europe, and make them shine with the glory of her brightnesse and innocency, farr surpassing the light of Torches in the darkest night, which shall likewise extend to the terrestrial Jerusalem, the abode of the holy Apostles of old: Holy Writs tell us, that the despised and dispersed Jewes, the natu [...]al branches of the Olive- [...]ree, shall be called or grafted in again; Shall wee call the whole Nation here to England to be converted? a blessed deed, if there were a possibility for it; but I conclude that that will not or cannot be. Then I demand by whom [Page 183] will they be converted? will the Great Turk do it? or will that holy Father, the Pope, take them in hand? Surely none of these. But these Prophesies tell us plainly, that those two Grand Enemies must first fall to destruction, and then will the appointed time appeare for their grafting in again to their own Olive, and that by meanes of English Divines, which shall preach Christ crucified to their eares, (whose mollified hearts (although now obdurate) shall willingly receive; and then shall they weep family by family, and turn to the Lord. So much from the very scope of Prophesies.
The chief Heads of fome of the Prophecies in the foregoing Book.
A Full verdict of substantial Jury past against a Plaintiff, set out under these names, viz. The Mould-warp, the Flower de-luce, the Red Lyon, the Wolf, the white King, the red Rose. A greater trial never happened in great Brittain before, but the verdict is delivered up long ago, and lately revived.
A second, and full verdict, yeelded up by a compleat, impartial, and substantial Jury, for a Defendant in a great tryal, nay, the greatest that have been seen or observed in this Island before, this Defendant is set out under the names of the Branch.
A short Prophecy of Me [...]lin Ambrose, crying down the Race of two Henries.
Three several Advertisements, the first to the Reader, the second to the Inhabitants in general, the third to the Reverend Devines, Ministers, and Teachers, fore-warning them of their dangers, with wholesom advice to unite themselves in unity and love, and to yeild obedience to the higher powers, or else to be destroyed.
An Apology in defence of Heathenish and Christian Prophets.
A Dialogue between the Star and the Collector of the Prophesies, wherein is handled, propounded and expounded—questions of great and wonderful consequence, and of weighty affairs.
His Highness descent laid out from Bl [...]thin ap Cynwin sometimes Prince of Powis, as also from Augharad Daughter to Rodri Rhangeat, and from Eysyllt daughter to Konau D [...]ndaethwy.
The discovery of the Angel Taliesin, by Elphin ap Gwiddno in his Fathers fishing net.
[Page] The Angel Taliesin's first language of dostrine exhortations to Elphin.
This Angels Confession to Elphin, or an exact account of what he was, with a particular recital of his progress since the creation.
This Angels Creed, set out agreeable to holy Writs.
His excellent Hymn or Song in praise of Jesus Christ, wherein is set forth much Learning and Divinity, with an account of memorable passages since the Creation, set forth in several Languages.
A second Hymn or Song, he made to the same Jesus, setting out his miracles, ascension, and redemption of mankind.
His third Hymn or Song, setting out terrible punishments due without repentance to several sorts of sinners.
One of the first Songs that he made, calledr Owdwl fraich the eldest, wherein is laid out the creation of Adam and Eve, of their seduction, and expulsion out of Paradise, with notable discourse about the Sacrament, and other weighty matters; also a Prophecy in the Conclusion.
Remarkable passages in the revolution of years.
Certain divine exhortations of the Angel Taliesin to Elphin ap Gwiddno.
A Song of Taliesin, wherein he delivers himself to be an Angel.
The first Odl or Song of Taliesin, wherein he beginneth with laud and praise unto Christ, the Son of God, then proceeds with terrible prophecies against the walls and Castles of England.
In the same Odl, he prophecyeth of a Conqueror out of the body of Angharad, and setteth out his valorous works, with laud and mighty praise.
His third Song of laud and praise to the same Conquerour, who as he saith will kill or destroy the Serpent, Dragon, and three red Lyons.
His fo [...]rth Song of the same Conquerour, and his notable acts, valour and prosperity.
His sixt and seventh Song to the same purpose.
[Page] A Prophecy in welch of Taliesin, pointing out the Norman Conquest, and of their Continuance till the coming of King James, whose coming is laid out by an exact number of years, likewise of the miseries which shall follow.
A Song to the Coronog F [...]bau, wherein is set out his discent, and progress in his warlike Acts, both in Great Brittain and in Rome, Turky, and the Kingdoms adjac [...]nt.
The principal Names given by the ancient Prophets to know and discern the Coronog Fabau or the Brittish Conquerour, which will conquer great Brittain, subdue the Turk and the Pope, and convert Jews and Pagans to the Christian faith.
Manifest signs and tokens to know him when he comes.
A not eable Prophecy written in English 200 years ago, setting out the Kingly Government, successively from Henry the eight, to his Highness the Lord Protector that now is, as also what shall follow in the future:
A Proph [...]cy of Merlin Ambros, of two white Kings which shall arise in Great Brittain, in these latter times, shewing that the first of the said Kings shall fall in a snare, that the second will be forced to flye, and upon his second coming and return he shall fall in a storm, or be killed.
A Prophecy of Merlin Ambros, directly pointing out these times the subversion of the late Monarchy, the late wars, the Kings loss, the flight of the Queen and her children, as also of his Highness the Lord Protector laid out by a red Fox.
An account of Merlin Wilt, otherwise called Merlin S [...]lvestris, or Calidonius, of his distempered fits, where and how he lived, and of his kind Sister Gwendolina.
5 Noteable Revelations of Gwendolina, with Me [...]lins wise and discreet resolution to each of them; directly pointing out this present age, the late wars, the fall of great Lords, and advance of the Commons.
A vindication of both Merlins, esp [...]cially Merlin Ambros against the assertion of Mar [...]in D [...]lcio, Johannes Major, Pollidor Virgil and others.
A Prophecy of Merlin Silvestris cited by Gildas, the Son of [Page] Caw, the first Brittish Writer, wherein the late King an the late wars is clearly por [...]rayed.
A Prophecy of Merlin Silvestris, discovering unto his Sister Gwendolina the prophesied Brittish Conquerour, the Koronog Fabau, or cradled King, the division between the late King and his Parliament, the late King [...] tri [...]l, the extirpating of the race of Henry the seventh from the Kingly Government, and of a Brittish Conqueror.
A noteabl [...] Prophecy of Merlin Ambros, wherein are foretold m [...]nifest signs and tokens to discern the Brittish Conquerour when he comes, and also of the Earl of Essex laid out by the Stag, with a pretty mistical and knotty number of 7 with an exposition upon it.
A Prophecy of Merlin Ambros, foretelling manifest signs and tokens, before the approaching of wars; likewise the sugered Complements late in use, with a check to the gallant Bishops and late Ministers.
A Prophecy of Adda fras to the Raven, foretelling the Brittish Conqueror and fall of Bishops.
A Prophecy of Merlin Ambros, foretelling of three several course of wars in great Brittain, that the Romish R [...]l [...]gion shall have the over-ruling pow [...]r, and in the end should be the impulsive cause of great wars, concluding with a fatal number of 56 and 49 dayes.
A Prophecy of Merlin Ambros foretelling the raigning sins of this Land of great Brittain, that the Kingly Government shall fall upon the earth, that the Bull shall bear the Imperial rule at Sea, who will be both just and invincible.
A Prophecy of the Angel Taliesin, predicting of Owen with the red hand, the prophecyed Conquerour, and of his noteable feats and Conquest, who will force the Norman [...]a [...]e to retreat, concluding with an odde m [...]stical number.
A Pr [...]phecy of Tal [...]esin pretending a discourse with the Co [...]onog Fabau, or cradled King, the Brittish Conquerour, wherein he foretelleth what kind of world will f [...]llow.
A short, but mistical Prophecy of Taliesin, in the Conclusion foretelling of a Brittish Conquerour.
[Page] A Prophecy of Merlin Silvestris, setting forth by way of discourse with his Sister Gwendolins, noteable signs and manifest tokens already past, as also the Brittish Conquerour.
A Prophecy of Merlin Silvestris, foretelling of a dissenting Parliament, which will be the grounds of wars, with manifest predictions and progress of such war.
A Song of Taliesin against ignorant Beirdhes and Harpers, with his hearty prayer for such as observe his counsel and directions, shewing further that Elphin ap Gwiddno was murthered for commending his Teacher, and interred at Artro, he was chief of the Western Prophets, and that he would set Elphin at liberty from his precious bonds.
A Prophecy of Taliesin, foretelling of great war when the French and English should joyn together, Castles then destroyed, but a Brittain should overcome them, then a good world.
A Prophecy of one of the ten Sibils, foretelling the subduing of many Kingdoms and Isles by their several names; by the invasion of the great Turk, the calamity of the Church through all Europe, the downfull of the Emperour, Kings, Princes, Pope, Bishops and Clergy, with several punishments and signs of the same; and of a Brittish Conquerour that shall reform the world.
Agreeable to the same of Sibills, is the judgment of the famous Doctor in Astrology, Mr. John Cyprian, Tarquatus Vandrivus Student in the Art Magick.
A noteable Prophecy of John from Trwch y darau, foretelling tee miserable condition of negligent Ministers and of great war in Brittain, and that a Brittain shall conquer in the end.
A marvelous Prophecy of Taliesin, foretelling of wars and conquest by a Conquerour of the Brittish race, his good success at Sea, with the time of the beginning, continuance of the late war. Reader pass not by it slightly.
Reader, now tell me if Taliesin proved not a true Prophet who foretells thee a large progress of the late wars, Mountgomery fight, the demolishing of Mountgomery Castle, the [Page] treaties between the late King and his Parliament, the flight of the Kings party to Sea, and that the Lyon of the Brittish race shall conquer and subdue both the Charls.
A Prophecy of a Prophet called the Bergam of Maelor in Denbighshire, wherein noteable things are foretold concerning these times, with a Conqueroures discent from the Principalitie of North-wales or Pewis.
A Prophecy of the same, foreshewing great wars in Great B [...]ittain in the behalf of a Crown, and that the Race of Cynwin will get the Conquest, according to the will of God.
A Prophecy of the same, presenting happy news to North and South Wales, of the appearance of a Conquerour, with remarkable passages besides.
A Prophecy of Tal [...]esin, foretelling of wars in the time of the Lyon of the Race of Llewelin Prince of Wales, and of the appearance of the Eagle of North-wales in such time.
A Prophesie of the same of great wars in Great Brittain, of a Conquerour, and of a white Harvest after such wars, as also of an overthrow to an English Ruler.
A Prophesie of the same, foretelling that after the raising or discovery of the graves in Corbre Church-yard, a lamentable time will follow, with signs and tokens of such troubles.
A Prophecy of the same, foretelling the strange removal of marvelous great stones from a bottom to the top of a high steep, and inaccessible Hill, which came so pass about King James Coronation, and of dissention and changes a in a Parliament, with heavy wars that should follow.
A Prophecy of the same, foretelling the coming of a migh [...]y strong and invincible Conquerour to rule the Brittains, and of great wars in such time, with a promise of a peaceable time to succeed.
A Prophecy of the Bergam of Maelor, setting out the beginning of great wars, the division of Armies, the confinement and death of the late King, and of deliverance by a Conquerour of the Brittish Race.
A Proyhecy of Adda fras, wherein is foretold, the late warres, with a conquering or subduing of forreign enemies.
[Page] A Prophecy of Adda fras foretelling of warres, of short trouble to the Brittish Conquerour, of the Race of Alau or Owen ap Cadwgau. of the starting up of Sects and Sectaries to trouble the true Church, but at last that Sects and Sectaries and Plotters shall vanish away.
A Prophecy of Merlin Silvestris, predicting of the late warres of the Lyon and Dragon from Wales, and of future peace.
A Prophecy of Merlin Ambros, foretelling the coming of an Eagle of the Race of the B [...]ittains, in a certain age, and this Eagle he calls the prophecied Conquerour, or fiery Dragon of invincible strength, in whose time will be great slaughter.
A Prophecy of the same by way of questions, wherein is set out a Conquerour, also the late wars exactly foretold, and of a peaceable time that shall follow.
Taliesins Creed different in words from that in pag. 6. 7. yet agreeable in substance.
A Revelation of Gronw ddu of Anglesey, wherein an Angel revealed unto him the Kingly succession in the Regal Government, until the appearance of a Conquerour, who is cleerly portrayed, and that the same should appear 2 [...]2 years after the revealing of the said revelation, or in the year 1644.
A Prophecy of Taliesin, exhorting all to confide in Jesus for help, then he proceeds to foretell of a dragon of the Race of Blethin ap Cynwin, and of his warlike actions.
A Prophecy of the Bergam, beginning with exhortations to observe prophesies, promising a Conquerour under the name of Owen of the Brittish Race, as also of the late Kings death.
A Prophecy of Merlin Silvestris, wherein is set out terrible threatenings against the late Royal party, also of a Conquerour of the Race of Cynwin.
A Prophecy of Adda fras, wherein is foretold our late wars, the late dissenting Parliament, and a Conquest by a person descending from the Princely Race of North-Wales.
Here followeth certain Prophetical discourses which p [...]st between Taliesin and Merlin.
A prophetical Chronology of Merlin Silvestr's, wherein is foretold several Conquests and changes in the Regal Government [Page] of Great Brittain since the Norman Conquest till this very time, as also the Heroical and successful acts of his Highness that now rules, who is here foretold to conquer and bear rule both in Great Brittain and elsewhere.
Merlins further predictions of noteable passages from the time he lived till the present, and what shall btfall hereafter.
A prophetical Chronology of Merlin Silvestris, Dialogue wise between Merlin and his Sister Gwendolina, wherein is laid out most of the Kings successively that should raign in gr [...]at Brittain, from the time wherein Merlin lived, till the appearance of a Conquerour of the race of the Brittains, and that such and his race shall imperially rule for ever, both in great Brittain and elsewhere, but in respect of the tediousness of the some I curta [...]led it, and began at Queen El [...]z [...]beth.
A Proph [...]cy of John de Beidlington, setting out the valorous acts of his Highness the Lord Protector, who shall be a Reformer of the Church of Christ, and that treacherous plots shall not prevail against him.
A Prophecy of Evau de Trwch y darau, wherein is foretold that the Eagle and Son of man shall subdue the Pope, and most part of the world, and also reform the Church, and settle peace.
A short Prophecy of the same, wherein is foretold the late wars and the like divisions and troubles through the Christian world, as also a Conquerour by discent from Powis.
A Prophecy of Merlin Silvestris predicting war and slaughter to the Town of Shrewsbury, formerly called Pengwern Powis; the like threatned against the adjacent parts; the fall of Bishops, as also of an Eagle Conquerour or Ruler, whose discent should be from Powis, or Son of Eliz [...]b [...]th.
A Prophecy of M [...]rlin Silvestris (set forth by way of discourse with another Prophet) wherein is foretold a Conquest of Brittain, and the fall of Bishops.
The judgment, or rather a prophecy of learned Brightman of the Church of England tipified by Laodicea.
A Song called yr owdwlfrai [...]h made and composed by Rees Nanmor, grounded upon the whole scope of prophecies, wherein [Page] are predicted most noteable passages since Henry the eight in the regal Government till this year 1657; as also what shall befall in the future.
Certain dates of prefixed times and years foretold; first, of the coming in of King James, or of his Coronation in England, as also of our bickerings with the Sects, of the beginning of the late wars, and its continuance; also when further attempts shall be expected, till a full settlement.
Noteable Abridgment of Prophecies pointing out his Highness out of several of his Ancestors by particular names, and his appearance likewise within a prefixed time.
A Prophecy of Merlin Silvestris of the Boar, or late King of the late wars, the Kings flight, Worcester fight, and of the Gonquest of the black Lyon.